What is "bees"

Usage examples of "bees".

In 1922 the United States had prohibited the import of foreign bees because they were bringing with them a tiny eight-legged tick called the Acarine mite.

Colonies of defective bees were about to be flown from the experimental apiary at the University of California at Davis.

It was already known that bees could die from too much stress, and now some claimed that the extensive patrolling of the invaders, the disappearance of monogyny - rule by a single queen - from the mass swarms, or the difficulty of preparing for winter at such a late date had made the bees functionally neurotic and suicidal.

And then there was the propolis, a resinous substance bees collect from tree buds and use to keep the hive walls smooth and waterproof.

VICIOUS bees TERRIFY SOUTH AFRICANS: 5 KILLED BY STINGS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Notoriously vicious bees, apparently irritated more than usual by hot weather, have terrified South Africans with angry attacks in the last six months.

In 1956 a Brazilian entomologist had imported African bees with the idea of crossbreeding them with Brazilian bees and creating a bee family as industrious as the Africans but as as the European bee.

He bought a theory that even if the Africans came in, American bees would kill them the moment they showed in a hive.

Thus in a matter of a few weeks millions on millions of domestic bees without colonies of their own joined the Africans, swelling their ranks.

He knew about the Africans, of course, but more and more he came to believe that the real enemies were the idiots who urged killing off bees altogether.

Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk The bees sustained flight, its powerful sting, its intimacy with flowers and avoidance of all unwholesome things, the attachment of the workers to the queen - regarded throughout antiquity as the king - its singular swarming habits and its astonishing industry in collecting and storing honey and skill in making wax.

One naturalist calculates that swarms of angry bees have caused more deaths during the last decade in this, country than any other form of wild life - including lions and snakes.

A strange story of a deadly assault by a swarm of bees on a Palm Sunday procession has been reported by Sister Rose Leon, a nurse and one of the Maryknoll Sisters stationed in ShinyoDga, Tanzania, a small town not far from Lake Victoria.

People fleeing in panic before swarms of bees in several cases dived into swimming pools or public fountains to escape the invaders.

African bees, a strain of the species common to the Americas, are virtually identical to the American variety in appearance but quite different in behaviour.

Emergency measures are being taken here to prevent an invasion of deadly African bees from Brazil, the Agrarian Defence Directorate said today.