Word: beese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practical Socialism. The menace of termites is increased by their socialist tendencies-they are the most communal of insects. Some ants, wasps and bees are solitary; there are no solitary termites. They have three major castes: reproductives, workers and soldiers. With a male as well as a female reproductive in...
> Beeswax needs of the Army and Navy, running into thousands of pounds yearly, have been doubled (so has the price). Beeswax is smeared as waterproofing over shells, airplane surfaces, ropes, canvas, gaskets, etc. To up war production, apiarists will have to let their bees build more combs (instead of having...
Texas researchers last year found that royal jelly, the substance secreted and fed to the queen bees by the workers, is two and a half to six times richer in pantothenic acid-a vitamin of the B complex-than yeast or liver. Hambleton believes that pollen will prove to have...
His pollen trap also enables apiarists to increase their swarms. In winter bees subsist on stored-up honey and pollen. A beekeeper who carefully gleans bee-dropped pollen, then feeds it back to his swarms in more generous quantities than the bees themselves would store it, will find his insects...
> WPB promised that bees could have at least 80% of the common sugar they ate last year. Reason: bees must often be kept alive on sugar in nectarless seasons before the orchards bloom and between the blossoming of orchards and fields. Ten pounds of sugar then may insure the gathering...