Word: stingless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mr. Feedham, an official of Canada's Honey Producers Association, announced his find: a honey-producing bee that refuses to sting.* He has already raised five "stingless" queens in his own hives. Besides being rich producers, Squamish bees are prolific, healthy, excellent hive managers. Mr. Feedham was pretty sure that he had something...
...stinging bees have been raised for some years in the U.S.-for example, in New Jersey by Apiarist Henry Brown. Because Brown's bees (like Feedham's) have stingers, but fail to use them through indolence or good nature, apiarists do not recognize them as stingless. A truly stingless bee (which protects itself by spitting a caustic, skin-burning liquid) is the Genus Trigona of Central America, which produces a watery, vile-tasting "honey...