Word: nectareous
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...Nature, Dr. M. Lindauer of the University of Munich tells how bees reach their decision. Prosperous colonies send out swarms when nectar is plentiful and storage cells are full of honey. A few days before the emotional orgy that results in swarming, forager bees have been returning to the hive to find neither need nor space for the nectar they have gathered. On their next trips they do not look for nectar. Instead, they investigate knotholes and crannies under rocks. Some built-in nervous mechanism has reminded them that when the colony needs no more nectar, it will soon need...
While the swarming excitement rises, the house-hunting scouts start making their reports. They do it by a stylized dance, just as honey scouts report their finds of nectar-yielding flowers. Dr. Lindauer marked bees that he found poking into crannies, and later watched them making their reports. The direction of their dancing told the other bees the direction of the prospective home site they had found. The vigor of their dance was proportionate to the site's desirability...
...really very fetching in her tight red pedal pushers. While Pluto and "Eury," as she is known to her friends, take off for a tryst in hell, trouble develops on Olympus, where an amorous Jupiter is losing the loyalty of his court (everybody is tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass junket to the gayer clime of Hades and, incidentally, to rescue Eurydice. In hell, confusion is confounded by folderol, but finally-with the help of what is probably the fieriest cancan ever written-everyone agrees...
...trickle to a stream in the past 15 months. From Japan have come Some Prefer Nettles and Homecoming, together with a reissue of The Honorable Picnic. A Chinese woman living in Hong Kong drew a portrait of present-day China in the Rice-Sprout Song. India contributed Amrita and Nectar in a Sieve, the latter by the author of the latest Indian entry, Some Inner Fury. The bulk of these novels pursue one theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns of Eastern life. Kipling said "never the twain shall meet...
...Nectar in a Sieve, by Kamala Markandaya, did more to explain ordinary life in India than most of the year's nonfiction books on the subject put together. It was a tale of hunger and suffering, wholly lacking in bitterness, and creating quick sympathy for its peasant characters...