The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 99
. Sweetmeats mean even more toit than to the young folks, for they not only givethe bee pleasure but life. In the first of the ac-companying illustrations is shown a bee ex-hausted by a beating rain, and by isolation fromthe hive; in the second it is seen applying itselfto the restorative—a… … This shows how he braced up when given a lump of sugar. feeds them with a syrup made of water and gran-ulated sugar. The nectar of flowers is practically sweetenedwater plus the peculiar flavoring of the particularplant from which it is taken. Honey-bees are fond of sweets in almost anyform. I have…
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