The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ManagementW. Blackwood and Sons, 1870 - 193 páginas |
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... question of profit is of first importance . Stings do not seem half so pain- ful to the man whose annual proceeds of bee - keeping amount to £ 10 , or £ 20 , or £ 50 . But in addition to the profits of bees , there is a fund of interest ...
... question of profit is of first importance . Stings do not seem half so pain- ful to the man whose annual proceeds of bee - keeping amount to £ 10 , or £ 20 , or £ 50 . But in addition to the profits of bees , there is a fund of interest ...
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... question may be asked if nothing has transpired amongst my own bees , during the last twenty - six years , to make me alter that opinion . Nothing has been seen to make me alter the opinion expressed so long ago . Within the last three ...
... question may be asked if nothing has transpired amongst my own bees , during the last twenty - six years , to make me alter that opinion . Nothing has been seen to make me alter the opinion expressed so long ago . Within the last three ...
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... question . These queens lay eggs which cer- tainly are of a fixed sex , for under no circumstances do they hatch into females . Anatomical examination proves the males hatched from them to be perfect in their kind , nor do they differ ...
... question . These queens lay eggs which cer- tainly are of a fixed sex , for under no circumstances do they hatch into females . Anatomical examination proves the males hatched from them to be perfect in their kind , nor do they differ ...
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... question . The reader , it is believed , will be greatly interested in perusing the following quotation : - " The ovaries of a queen bee are never impregnated , the semen being stored in a distinct vesicle called the sper- matheca , a ...
... question . The reader , it is believed , will be greatly interested in perusing the following quotation : - " The ovaries of a queen bee are never impregnated , the semen being stored in a distinct vesicle called the sper- matheca , a ...
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... question . The stumbling - block of more than two sexes which seems so necessary to make plain , is no greater here than with some species of ants , that have , as we are told , king , queen , soldier , and labourer -four distinct and ...
... question . The stumbling - block of more than two sexes which seems so necessary to make plain , is no greater here than with some species of ants , that have , as we are told , king , queen , soldier , and labourer -four distinct and ...
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The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ... A. Pettigrew Visualização integral - 1870 |
The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ... A. Pettigrew Visualização integral - 1870 |
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