Honey bee [essay]

Title

Honey bee [essay]

Language

English

Source

The Young Citizen. 2 (3) April 1936

Year

1936

Subject

Essays

Honeybees

Rights

In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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Ap; il, 19J6 HONEY BEE (Continned fi·om M1trch Issue) T HE bees use not honey alone for food. They c"at bread just as you do. But their bread is made from the yellow or brown dust you find in flowers. This dust is called pollen. The b'-'es carry the pollen in a little hqllow place in each hind leg. At home. the pollen is packed in the cell and kept as beebread. You have learned that honey and beebr(ad are put in cells. Some cells scrVl as rooms for baby bees. The baby bees arc fat, white, little things without feet and wings. They are taken care of by some workers which take food frOm their own stomachs to give to the little ones. \Vhen a baby bee is large enough to fill a celi. it goes to sleep. The cell is closed by the workers. During its nap, something wonderful takes place in its body. When it wakes up, it is a full grown bee. In the beehive, the queen rules. She docs nothing but produce baTHE YOUNG CITIZEN "Strange Fads When greeting a stranger in Tibrt, you must hold your right ear in your right hand and stick out your tongue as far as you can to the stranger. Joseph Conrad is a famous masler of the English language. At the age of 25 he could not speak a \\'ord of English. For 19 years he wrote without any success. Once he received only 25 dollars in payment for 14 published volumes. George Bernard Shaw, a famom playwright, works in a revolving hut. He made this, so he can haw the sun shining upon him all thr. time while he is writing. Most of his best plays were written in short-hand while he rides on buscr. and trains. A certain Miss Van Bumm Da Lee, of Verona. taught school for 50 years. She never scolded any of her pupils except with her eyes. It was a sufficient punishment ii she just looked at an unruly studrnt. A place near Laloma, Kentucky. has the smallest church in the world. It has seats only for 3 persons. by bees. Some bees are lazy and arc called drones. In the Philippines, bees live in the woods. When they are disturbed, they fight with their sting But they can be domesticated and rJiscd as pets. They can then provide children with fresh honey. 103 The Battle Of The Crabs (Co11ti1111ecl jJ"om page 8.:) '"Your face is turned the wrong '.'/Jy, my friend," they said. ""Arc you ready co fight with the waves:'' They laughed because they thought the shrimp did not know how to fight. They asked the s~rimp what weapon he had. .. My .capon," said the shrimp, 'is the' spear on my head.'' Suddenly. a big wave.came rushing towards them. The shrimp, si:eing it come, ran away. The crabs did not sec the wave. so they were killed. Thi.' wives of the dead crabs wait.d and waited. They thought the oJttlc must be a long one. They did 11ot know that their husbands were "II killed. They decided to go down to the -;hare and help them fight. As they reached the shore, another wave ca:nc rushing to meet them Jnd they were all drowned. The little crabs, or fiddlers, were left alone on the shore. When these liddlcrs were old i.'nough to \Valk, the shrimp visited them. He related to them the sad fate of their par1. nts. "Your fathers tried to fight the waves." the shrimp said. "Who can fight the waves? They arc mighty and strong." The little crabs did not know what to do. They wanted to St.ly c-n th .. and where their forefathers lived. They also wanted to fight ll)(' waves as their fathers did. They ran back and forth, undecided about what they should do. Today, if you go to the seashore, Y·'atch the crabs closely. You wii1 r.oticc that they· run back and forth about the shore. They wish to fight the waves but they arc not brave enough. They live neither on dry l.rnd nor in lhe sea. and they try to hide from the wJvcs which rush to· wards them and try to tear them to little bits.

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