. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 442 Handbook of Nature-Study. THE BUMBLEBEE Teacher's Story Thou, in sunny solitudes. Rover of the underwoods. The green silence dost replace With thy mellow, breezy bass. âEmerson. iE^J_t~&~§^;~I HERE seems to have been an hereditary war between "" " â -»- - - farm boy and the bumblebee, the hostilities usually initiated by the boy. Like many wars, it is very foolish and wicked, and has resulted in great harm to both parties. Luckily, the boys of to-day are
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 442 Handbook of Nature-Study. THE BUMBLEBEE Teacher's Story Thou, in sunny solitudes. Rover of the underwoods. The green silence dost replace With thy mellow, breezy bass. âEmerson. iE^J_t~&~§^;~I HERE seems to have been an hereditary war between "" " â -»- - - farm boy and the bumblebee, the hostilities usually initiated by the boy. Like many wars, it is very foolish and wicked, and has resulted in great harm to both parties. Luckily, the boys of to-day are more enlightened; and it is to be hoped that they will learn to endure a bee sting or two for the sake of protecting these diminishing hosts, upon which so many flowers depend for carrying their pollen; for of all the insects of the field, the bumblebees are the best and most needed friends of the flowers. The bumblebees are not so thrifty and forehanded as are the honey- bees, and do not provide enough honey to sustain the whole colony during the winter. Only the mother bees, or queens as they are called, survive the cold season. Just how they do it, we do not know, but probably they are better nourished and therefore have more endurance than the workers. In early May, one of the most delightful of spring visitants is one of these great btizzing queens, flying low over the freshening meadows, trying to find a suitable place for her nest; and the farmer or fruit grower who knows his business, is as anxious as she that she find suitable quarters, knowing well that she and her children will render him most efficient aid in growing his fruit and seed. She finally selects some cosy place, very likely a deserted nest of the field mouse, and there begins to build her home. She toils early and late, gathering pollen and nectar from the blossoms of the orchard and other flowers which she makes into a special kind of bee-bread, by mixing it with nectar. This is packed in an irreg
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