hive bee

noun

The hive bee, the most communal in habit, shows the highest traits of intelligent activity.

Besides, the well-known story of the Hive-bee should make us wary of rejecting paradoxical suppositions.

There ought to be honey in the honeysuckle, but I have never seen the hive bee make any attempt to get it.

The male of the hive-bee is much thicker and more clumsy than either the female or the worker; but in Halictus Latr.

But the female wasp does not pass her entire life in idleness as a queen, like the mother hive bee.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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