honey-gathering

Even for Sindhu, her family's income from plantation labour and honey-gathering couldn't have been enough to buy a stove at this price.

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When distended to their utmost capacity they fall apparently into a semi-comatose condition, are carried into the ant-hill, and hung up by the hind legs in a specially prepared chamber, in which (we trust) enjoyable position and state they are left until their contents are needed for the purposes of the community, when they are waked up, compelled to disgorge, and resume their ordinary life activities until the next season's honey-gathering begins.

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

They are neither soldiers nor laborers, but accompany the latter in their honey-gathering excursions, and as the spoils are collected they are literally packed full of the sweets by the workers.

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

Then, when the sun shines, there will be no lingering red admiral, nor blue fly or fly of any colour, nor yellow wasp, nor any honey-eating or late honey-gathering insect that will not be here to feed on the ivy's sweetness.

Afoot in England 1881

Flitting about from tree to tree with great rapidity, they thrust their long extensible tongues, pencilled with honey-gathering hairs, into the tubes of many big tropical blossoms.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

I lean towards want of skill and admit that all the game-hunting and honey-gathering Hymenoptera possess a seminal receptacle, which can be recognized by its contents, a quantity of spiral spermatozoids whirling and twisting on the slide of the microscope.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

It is a hairless, legless, sightless grub, easily confused, by inexperienced eyes, with those of various honey-gathering Hymenoptera.

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Put on my guard, I look to see whether the honey-gathering Bees have a double service, like the game-hunting Wasps '.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The ease, then, with which the honey-gathering and cell-making habits are relinquished, would seem to point strongly in the direction of their acquisition at a comparatively late period of development.

Life and Habit Samuel Butler 1868

He loved the flowers and the honey-gathering more than ever, and began his accustomed murmur of delight, and had serious thoughts of going back at once to the hive as usual, when as he was coming out of one of the golden cups, he met his old Relation coming out of another.

Parables From Nature 1857