They were kept in hives which resembled our own, and when flowers were not numerous, the owners of bees often carried their hives in boats to various spots on the banks of the Nile where many flowers were blooming.
On the death of a member of the family, the bees were at once informed of the event, and their hives dressed in mourning.
This ceremonial was supposed to be necessary to prevent the swarms from leaving their hives and seeking a new home.
Not much damage had been done, as he had been detected almost at the outset; but one thing was now certain; the hives would not be safe from Black Bruin any longer.
This pound was but a taste, so he fell to watching the hives again and perhaps plotting as to how he might get at their contents.
One day the farmer took a super of honey from one of the hives in the back yard, and, as a sort of reward of merit, gave Black Bruin a pound for his share.
Two of the hives were overturned and pulled to pieces, and the contents of half a dozen sections licked out.
There upon the ground was one of the hives overturned and pulled apart.
There in the midst of the hives was the old honey thief.
From the bumblebees' nest to the hives of the honeybees in the orchard back of the house was a very natural step, but the farmer had not dreamed that the bear would discover the secret of the small white houses.
The main things are to keep away insects, mice, and birds, and especially a little bird called the bee-bird; and to keep all clean and fresh as to the hives and coverings.
The conveyance of cattle by railway reminds us how enormously all the great centres and bee-hives of our population are indebted to the iron road and the iron horse for their daily consumption and sustenance.
The hives are not in the least like ours, but are cylindrical vases of coarse earthenware, laid horizontally, much like the bark hives employed in many parts of Southern Africa.
In some places the hives are actually built into the walls of the houses, the closed end of the cylinder projecting into the interior, while an entrance is made for the Bees in the other end, so that the insects have no business in the house.
Near them is shown the entrance to one of the natural hives which are so plentiful in the Holy Land, and are made in the "clefts of the rocks.
Others there are, the mere drones of society, who pass their days in idleness, and subsist by pirating on the hives of the industrious.
On tiptoe now the hives she nears, Close up to them she creeps, And through the little window panes Quite cautiously she peeps.
Illustration] One day, upon some bee-hives near She chanced to cast her eyes; "How nice that honey there must taste!
On the edge of the apiary was a tool house and another building where the honey and bee hives were stored in for winter, for here in the north bees cannot exist through the cold weather out of doors.
He had fresh buckwheat honey, which had been taken from the hives that same day, his uncle told him.
He is particularly fond of honey, will attack the hives in winter, and force the bees to abandon them.
But when he went to sleep, he was thinking of William Koehler and his son Alvin and planning the fitting-out of a little store and the planting of a garden and the purchasing of a flock of chickens and several hives of bees.
The Millerstown children never carried their mocking to his house, since they believed that he was able to set upon them the swarms of bees that lived in hives in his little garden, among which he went without fear.
Back in the chicken house were cheerful duckings and crowings, and about the hives the bees buzzed as of old.
There the hives stand, like four-and-twenty fiddlers all in a row.
Now, that our hives have come and we are waiting for a swarm to live in them, we ought to know something about their habits," coaxed Hilda.
We won't tease them, and after we have some swarms in our hives the bees will get to know each one of us by sound and smell," explained the Guide.
Hives is characterized by the sudden appearance of hard round or oval lumps in the skin, from the size of a pea to that of a silver dollar, of a pinkish-white color, or white in the center and often surrounded by a red blush.
The swallows in their torpid state Compose their useless wing, And bees in hives as idly wait The call of early Spring.
Our public hives of puerile resort, That are of chief and most approved report, To such base hopes, in many a sordid soul, Owe their repute in part, but not the whole.
The bees all poured out of the hives for a play spell, like children from school, and having been confined so long together in one apartment had acquired, in some measure, the same scent, and soon things were badly mixed.
It would be well on such days as this to see that all entrances to hives are open, so that no hindrances may be in the way of house-cleaning.
In different hives they had conceived and attempted various systems of defence and fortification.
Even the insects which live longest in the sun, like the bees and the ants, work willingly in obscurity; are partial to the shadows of their hives and ant-hills.
The odor from our full pantries comes strong from the hives this morning," she said.
Then it was that the bees were busy sucking honey from the flowers, making wax, and laying their eggs within the hives that were all too small to house the swarms.
Now Claes had made some hives for the purpose of attracting the wandering swarms of bees, and some of these hives were full already, but there were others that stood empty waiting for the bees.
And there the bees, like clever basket-makers, lined and tunnelled the hives with their beautifully fitting tools.
The hives were made of rushes, straw, osiers or of wattled hay.
She knew just where the bee-hives ought to be put, and the sun-dial, and the hole in the fence where the little pigs squeezed through.
When it was time to put in the bee-hives, however, and Peggy volunteered to look up and down the beach for the right kind of a pebble to set the bee-hives on, Georgina took advantage of the moment alone with Melindy.
