. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 792 Tmm mwMmmi^mm mmm jO'WmMm%,. trees, delightfully described by Evans, thus : *'Wttb merry hum the willow's copse they scale. The Firs dark pyramid, or Poplar pale ; Scoop from the Alder's leaf its oozy flood. Or strip the chestnut's resin-coated bud ; Sbitn the lif;lit tear that tips Narcissus' ray, Ar<»und the hoUy-liocka hoar frasrance play ; That forms a fretwork for the future comb. Caulk every chink, where rushing winds may roar. And seal their circling ramparts to the floor," The drone bees are the males of the hive, and, like many pe
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 792 Tmm mwMmmi^mm mmm jO'WmMm%,. trees, delightfully described by Evans, thus : *'Wttb merry hum the willow's copse they scale. The Firs dark pyramid, or Poplar pale ; Scoop from the Alder's leaf its oozy flood. Or strip the chestnut's resin-coated bud ; Sbitn the lif;lit tear that tips Narcissus' ray, Ar<»und the hoUy-liocka hoar frasrance play ; That forms a fretwork for the future comb. Caulk every chink, where rushing winds may roar. And seal their circling ramparts to the floor," The drone bees are the males of the hive, and, like many people, are in- veterate loungers. They have no stinger, the shortness of their proboscis disqualifies them for gathering honey, their thighs are destitute of baskets for holding bee-bread, and no pouches are found on the abdomen for secret- ing ?wax. Like the Indian to the sqnaw. the drones live off of the workers until those little creatures tind there is no further use for the gormandizing arone» when they seize him by the neck or any other part of the body, out, sting him to death, and hurling him over the alighting-board, Mr. Drone is ?^07^ est. Dr. Evans very appropriately de- scribes drones thus : ' " Their short protioscis sips No luscious nectar from the wiM thyme's lips. From the lime's leaves no amber drops they steal, Nor bear their emoveless thiphs the fooUiul meal: On other's toil in pampered leisure thrive They, lazy fathers, of the industrious ; Thus we see many peculiarities of people are found in the bee. There are the wild bees as there are the wikl people ; the cultivated bees as there are cultivated people ; the qeens with their royal retinues, the robbei's ply- ing their nefarious tricks, idle loungers, etc. So Shakespeare, recognizing this, said : " So work the honey-bees. Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and offl. era of sorts. Where some like maKistraies, correc
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