Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 25, 1918
An experiment was once made to see how fast a bee could fly. The hive was attached to the roof of a train which attained a speed of 30 miles an hour before the bee was left behind.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 19, 1913
Glen Birkett of Belvidere, is singing the “song of the Honey Bees” since his return a day or two ago from Wauconda, Ill., where he has been sojourneying at a small lake. Glen says that he got too inquisitive in examining the architectural beauty of a bee hive which scrutiny the honey bees naturally resented […]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 25, 1874
The death of a little colored girl in Alabama is recorded in a local paper which gives as a cause the following: While asleep the ants by the hundreds made an attack on the child, and when she awoke she was literally covered with them, and all busy biting and stinging. They were so ferocious […]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, September 8, 1922
Naturalist Tells How They Set Free Their Fellows When He Imprisoned Them. An eminent naturalist, while watching a column of foraging ants, one day, placed a small stone on one of them to secure it. The next one that approached, on discovering the situation of its associate, ran back in an excited manner and communicated […]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 1, 1921
One of the “industries” of Florida is hunting “bee trees” in the swamps. As high as 300 pounds of honey have been found in one hollow tree. The trees are located by the hunters who follow the flight of bees, and the requisites are a keen eyesight and a reliable compass.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, June 14, 1922
Bandit wild bees invade the tame hives near Grays Harbor, Wash., and steal and carry away the honey to their hives in the forest. More than one-third of the domestic honey gathered in this district has been stolen by the robber bees. The wild bees make their homes in hollow trunks and cedar trees, where […]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 16, 1912
Waukegan people were much interested last night in the passage over the city of an immense swarm of dragon flies. They were myriads of the winged insects and the swarm was large that it took fully half an hour for them to pass over the city. They were headed in a southerly direction. The flight […]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 31, 1900
With his features distorted beyond all human semblance, and his hands and arms swollen and seared, Andrew Schlake, a farmer living north of Nashville, was found wandering about in the swamps along the Okaw river. Myriads of Mosquitoes hovered over him and covered his face and body. Schlake was taken to his home by friends […]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 3, 1899
“Uncle Bill” Murphy, One of the Quaint Characters of the State. One of the quaint characters of Saginaw, Mich., is “Uncle bill” McMurphy, the bee wizard, who has netted a snug little fortune gathering wild honey from the woods of Saginaw county. For upward of forty years this strange old man has roamed the forests […]
Friday, November 11, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, November 25, 1877
Hempstead Tex., Messenger. Some two weeks since a mad dog bit a great many hogs in the Loggins neighborhood, and since then these hogs have gone mad to the number of a dozen. One sow brought forth a litter of pigs, every one of which was mad at birth, and all of which died soon […]