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Because of the chemical's shell, the bee is at first unaffected and blithely returns to the hive to make honey. But the following spring, or even two years later, disaster strikes. Larvae and young bees eat the stored pollen that has been poisoned by the chemical and die. By Entomologist Roy Barker's reckoning, just a few capsules may be enough to devastate a colony of 50,000 bees...
...every spring all the fans in Boston stand in lines that stretch sometimes for blocks. They needle through thickening mobs of vendors, salesmen, religious prophets, politicians and pushers which gather around Fenway Park like bees to a hive...
...scaled-down "enthronement," but simply a "solemn Mass to mark the start of his ministry as Supreme Pastor." John Paul asked not to be carried on the usual portable throne but to walk in procession. Most significant, he did not wish to be crowned with the triple-decked, bee hive-shaped tiara. Instead, a pallium, the white woolen stole symbolizing his title of Patriarch of the West, would be placed on his shoulders...
Most insects lead solitary, asocial lives and spend their brief days on earth trying desperately to be diners rather than dinners. Some species, however, live in societies so well structured that humans might profit by emulating them. Honeybees group together in hives or colonies that might be compared to the human body?the queen, the only fertile female in a hive, functioning as the reproductive system; the workers, or sterile females, who gather nectar and feed the young, as the arms, legs and digestive tract; the drones, whose sole function is to fertilize the queen, as the heart that keeps...
During the 1971 agreement negotiations between Radcliffe and Harvard, then-President Mary I. Bunting likened the whole procedure to her bee-keeping hobby. The delicate process of combining two beehives, she said, must begin with the choosing of one colony as the base. Then, the cover of the hive is removed and layers of paper are placed over it to separate the two bee populations. By the time the workers of both hives have caten through the paper, they are supposed to have become accustomed to each other. "With luck it all works out," Bunting said, adding that the honey...