humblebees

The number of humblebees in any district depends in a great measure upon the number of field mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Col. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, believes that “more than two-thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England.

III. Struggle for Existence. Complex Relations of All Animals and Plants to Each Other in the Struggle for Existence 1909

” Now the number of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats; and Col. Newman says, “Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humblebees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.

III. Struggle for Existence. Complex Relations of All Animals and Plants to Each Other in the Struggle for Existence 1909

I find from experiments that humblebees are almost indispensable to the fertilisation of the heartsease (Viola tricolor), for other bees do not visit this flower.

III. Struggle for Existence. Complex Relations of All Animals and Plants to Each Other in the Struggle for Existence 1909

Mrs. Hastings fluttered ponderously, as humblebees fly.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

The second crops of clover were already high; in them humblebees were hard at work; and, above, the white-throated swallows dipped and soared.

Beyond John Galsworthy 1900

The second crops of clover were already high; in them humblebees were hard at work; and, above, the white-throated swallows dipped and soared.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

The fish, the humblebees, the birds, and a mouse which scampered away to its hole amid the rocks, -- all these might have found better living elsewhere.

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

(Rather high-minded humblebees, they seemed, more than five thousand feet above the sea!)

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

We know better; and so do the rabbits and the humblebees.

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

It was on a beautiful June morning in a charming French garden, where the warm, sweet atmosphere was laden with the scent of lilac and syringa, and gay with butterflies and dragon-flies and humblebees, that

Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865