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  • Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • These appeared in the mid 1990s after their development by Bayer and were soon banned in France after research pointed to their role in a massive number of honey-bee deaths in that country.

    Archive 2007-10-28 2007

  • And even looking at it head-on, I would say the bee orchid in the picture h is pretty clearly more of a bumble-bee orchid than a honey-bee orchid.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • And even looking at it head-on, I would say the bee orchid in the picture h is pretty clearly more of a bumble-bee orchid than a honey-bee orchid.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • These appeared in the mid 1990s after their development by Bayer and were soon banned in France after research pointed to their role in a massive number of honey-bee deaths in that country.

    DEFRA's Sting In The Tail For Apiculture 2007

  • Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;

    PC Woes K. A. Laity 2007

  • Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;

    Happy Birthday Yeats! « So Many Books 2005

  • Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;

    William Butler Yeats baggyk 2005

  • It is not much larger than the common house-fly, and is nearly of the same brown color as the common honey-bee; the after part of the body has three or four yellow bars across it; the wings project beyond this part considerably, and it is remarkably alert, avoiding most dexterously all attempts to capture it with the hand at common temperatures; in the cool of the mornings and evenings it is less agile.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • The honey-bee of Borneo very generally hangs its combs under the branches of the Tappan, a tree which towers above all others in the forest, and whose smooth cylindrical trunk often rises a hundred feet without a branch.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

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