The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ManagementWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1875 - 162 páginas |
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... flowers , storing the one in sacks and the other in baskets , returning to their homes laden as a donkey with panniers , increasing their honey- stores in weight from 2 lb. to 6 lb. per day ; and after their honey has been twice ...
... flowers , storing the one in sacks and the other in baskets , returning to their homes laden as a donkey with panniers , increasing their honey- stores in weight from 2 lb. to 6 lb. per day ; and after their honey has been twice ...
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... flowers of certain plants in almost every country . Doubtless it is odoriferous ; and hence the honey - bee , whose smelling powers are wonder- fully keen , can easily find it . The bee is furnished with a proboscis of some length ...
... flowers of certain plants in almost every country . Doubtless it is odoriferous ; and hence the honey - bee , whose smelling powers are wonder- fully keen , can easily find it . The bee is furnished with a proboscis of some length ...
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... flower and carried to the hive is not honey proper . The nectar of flowers is a thin sweet juice which may be properly called crude honey . This is collected by bees into the hives , and there converted into honey proper . During the ...
... flower and carried to the hive is not honey proper . The nectar of flowers is a thin sweet juice which may be properly called crude honey . This is collected by bees into the hives , and there converted into honey proper . During the ...
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... flowers yield very little honey indeed when winds come from either east or north . In these times of scarcity bees work on these shining leaves , and thus col- lect honey - dew . It is dark in colour - disagreeable both to the eye and ...
... flowers yield very little honey indeed when winds come from either east or north . In these times of scarcity bees work on these shining leaves , and thus col- lect honey - dew . It is dark in colour - disagreeable both to the eye and ...
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... flowers . gather it , and carry it home in hind - legs . Of course the colour of pollen is different in different kinds of flowers . Anciently it was considered crude wax , and even now some novices think it is made into wax . It is ...
... flowers . gather it , and carry it home in hind - legs . Of course the colour of pollen is different in different kinds of flowers . Anciently it was considered crude wax , and even now some novices think it is made into wax . It is ...
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