Half natural history, half literature: how the honey-bee actually works — tongue, wings, sting, swarm — and then three thousand years of what people have believed about her, from the Vedas to mead.
2 pages in this part of The Honey-Makers.
In the long-bodied, golden-hued Italian bee, the wings are not more than three-fourths the length of the abdomen. Clinging to the flowers…
Our modern poets are still enamoured of the voice of the bee, and Rogers stops us thus, finger on lip, - "Hark! the bee winds her small…