Curious Facts in the History of Insects Including Spiders And Scorpions a Comp
Curious Facts in the History of Insects Including Spiders And Scorpions a Comp
Frank Cowan
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2 Xut. IfiHt. , xxi. 20, Holl Trans. , p. 100. K. ' Quot. In Brand's P'p Antiq. , iii 22o. * Lfingstrotli on fhe Honfij- lUe. , p. 1:'2. APID^B — BEES. 191 took only what their Bees conld spare, killing no stocks ex- cept such as were feeble or diseased. The following epitaph, taken from a German work, might well be placed over every pit of these brimstoned insects: Hebe Rests, cut off from useful labor, a colony of IXDUSTRIOrS BEES, BASELY MURDERED BY ITS UNGRATEFUL AND IGNORANT OWNER. To the ...epitaph also may be appended Thomson's verses: Ah, see, where robbed and murdered in that pit. Lies the still heaving hive I at evening snatched. Beneath the cloud of guilt-concealing night. And fixed o'er sulphur I while, not dreaming ill, The happy people, in their waxen cells, Sat tending public cares. Sudden, the dark, oppressive steam ascends, And. Used to milder scents, the tender race, By thousands, tumble from their honied dome Into a gulf of blue sulphureous flame I^ It is considered very cruel in Africa, as Campbell ob- serves, to kill Bees in order to obtain their honey, especially as from flowers being there at all seasons, and most in winter, they can live comfortably all the year round.
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