Bumblebee
The bumblebee is a flying insect. Like the common bee, of which it is a distant relative, the bumblebee feeds on nectar. Bumblebees tend to be larger than other members of the bee family. They rarely have stingers.Bumblebees live in hollow spaces underground where they will raise larvae and store food. Unlike honeybees, bumblebees store only a few day's food and so are much more vulnerable to food shortages. Bumblebee nests are typically used only for one year.1
Bumblebees are in danger in many developed countries due to habitat destruction and collateral pesticide damage.
In Britain, there are 21 species of native bumblebee and six varieties of cuckoo bees - bees that dupe other bumblebees into looking after their young. Of these, only six bumblebees remain widespread. Five are in serious decline and at least three are extinct. 1
Common species of Bumblebee include:
- Large Garden bumblebee, Bombus Ruderatus
- Cullem's bumblebee, Bombus Collamanus
- Short-haired bumblebee, Bombus Subterraneus
- Great Yellow bumblebee, Bombus Distinguendus
- Shrill Carder bee, Bumbus Silvarum
See also: bees, how to tell bees from wasps
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1 "Bumblebee Shortage", Bee Culture, July 2003, pg 59, Alan Harman
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A ROMANCE OF YOUTH
By FRANCOIS COPPEE
FRANCOIS COPPEE
FRANCOIS EDOUARD JOACHIM COPPEE was born in Paris, January 12, 1842. His
consisted of six the parents, three daughters, and a son (the subject of
After the father's death, the young man himself entered the governmental
Genevieve Library. He made rhymes, had them even.html">even printed (Le Reliquaire,
verse, 'Le Passant', appeared. From this period dates the reputation of
writer of fiction. He was elected to the French Academy in 1884. Smooth
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at home on the writing-desk, a page of carefully prepared manuscript, yet
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cares, ever fearful of disturbing him. Within this tranquil domicile can
dins; the bustle of the street; the clatter of a factory; the voice of
the bells of a near-by convent-a confusing buzzing noise, which the
Parisian by education, a Parisian of the Parisians.
If as a poet we contemplate him, Coppee belongs to the group commonly
effusion of Lamartine, Hugo, or De Musset! When the poetical lute was
different stamp, of even opposed tendencies. Observation of exterior
descriptive and scientific; the aim of every poet was now to render most
translate into artistic language a thesis of philosophy, a discovery of
importance which the "naturalistic form" henceforth assumed.
Coppee, however, is not only a maker of verses, he is an artist and a
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