Years ago, Lord Avebury, then Sir John Labbock, gave especial attention to the habits of bees and wasps, with regard to colonre, industry, and the homing faculty. It you bring a bes to some honey, it feeds q letly, goes back to the hive, stores away the boney, and returns with or without companions for another supply. He ascertained that each visit of a bee to the hone supplying flowers occupies about six minutes (at s reasonable distance from the hive;) so that there are abyat ten visits in an hoor, and about a handred babite of wasps are very that they appear to be quite dustrious as the bees. He trained a bee and a warp to come to some honey, and then timed them through " whole day. The window of his stady was open, sud the honey was on the table, Whea be entered st four in the morning, the wasp was already at work, continued without a moment's intermission antu close on eight o'clock in the evening, working without a moment's rear all that time, and making no lasa than 116 visite to the honey, The bee did not commence work antu a quarter before six in the morning, and left off " little earlier than the wasp. This was in automa; in sammer they may work overtime.
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