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The professor fed twelve bees on the bergamot-scented syrup. They returned to the hive and danced their dance. Within an hour, 216 bees paid calls on the sugarless, bergamot-scented card.
By similar trickery, beemen can lure their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red...
Occasionally bees are obstinate. Then the keeper selects a hive containing many adolescent, more adaptable bees. At that age, they can always be had.
Of course he was referring to termites, which are neither white nor are they ants. Generally yellowish or brownish in color, they belong to the insect order Isoptera which is only remotely related to the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps). . . .
Hamlet's Father. Now, Samuel Charles Webster has written this book to clear his father's name. His argument: Twain's bitterness about Manager Webster was a product of his crusty old age; Webster did a fine job, including the skillful publishing and promotion of the century...