Bombus terrestris delights in nipping holes at the base of the tube, which other pilferers also profit by.
On his departure they resume their original position, to protect both nectar and pollen from rain and pilferers whose bodies are not perfectly adapted to further the flower's cross-fertilization.
Crawling pilferers rarely think it worthwhile to slip and slide up the smooth footstalk and risk a tumble where it curves to allow the flower to nod - the reason why this habit of growth is so popular.
Who has tested this statement about the guilty little pilferers on our side of the Atlantic?
Even when ants - the worst pilferersextant - succeed in entering, they cannot reach the nectar, owing to the hairy stockade bordering the groove where it runs.
But saucy bumblebees, undutiful pilferersfrom the purple avens, rarely visit blossoms so inconspicuous.
The immediate Receivers connected with Thieves, and those who keep shops and purchase fromPilferers in the way of trade:--The latter are extremely numerous.
What makes so many pilferers and felons, But these fond baits that foolish people lay To tempt the needy miserable wretch?
What makes so many pilferers and felons, But such fond baits that foolish people lay To tempt the needy miserable wretch?
When the pilferers had sufficiently pillaged the church of clothes and linen, they left the town, and would carry my wife with them whether she would or no.
For my parsonage house had been filled with all kinds of furniture left by noblemen and magistrates in their flight; and although pilferers had been there, there was enough still left.
Within the last two or three years the treasures of the churches have been the greatest sufferers from the pilferers on principle, who have been inflamed by the anti-clerical campaign of the Combes ministry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilferers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
