Word: beese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Establishing colonies in abandoned walls, on the underside of rocks, on cave walls damp with waterfall spray under tree roots, in abandoned cars in Telephone booths and even in traffic lights, the Africans have killed birds chickens dogs, pigs, horses and four people. Four months ago, a resident of Caieiras...
Apiculturist Warwick Kerr figured he had some perfectly good reasons for bringing 20 African queen bees into his native Brazil nine years ago. Though it is known to be ferocious, the African bee produces 30% more honey than either the Italian or German bee that long dominated Brazilian beekeeping: it...
Hive After Hive. From those 20 imported African queens have come as many as 450,000 new bees a year almost none of which inherited the traits of the Italians and Germans that fathered them. Quick to anger, even quicker to swarm, the new Africans lave turned on Italian and...
Nimble Thimbles. Rarely was there a bride without a dozen quilts packed in her hope chest. Before her wedding, her friends would gather in a quilting bee to make a friendship-album quilt in which each did a special, signed design. The art was not reserved completely for the distaff...
The benefits to man are countless. The fragile inky cap is delicious if gathered young and cooked promptly. Lichen, formed by the union of fungi and algae, eats into rock, prepares it to become new soil. The molds that make Camembert are fungi; so are the yeasts that leaven bread...