HUMBLE BEES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND MAIL.
Sir,— Sportsmen and lovers of nature will be among the first to welcome our old friend the Rev J. C. Andrew back among us again as a permanent resident, but he should pause before writing to the papers condemning our Acclimatisation Society unheard on the score of the scarcity of humble bees. Last year one of the fathers of acclimatisation in our city, Mr W. T. L. Travers, suggested their importation, and the Canterbury Society have been endeavoring to obtain a few nests for us for some time past, but hitherto without success. Should anyone going South be able to find and bring up a few nests, our Society will gladly pay a reward for any trouble taken in the matter. The antipodes seems to agree with the old friends of our youth wonderfully, as they develop into much larger insects than in England. It is to be hoped that in the distant future it may not be found necessary to import their natural enemy, “ the chub,” into our waters, and thus renew the “bony” recollections of large coarse fish, tempted by small boys to indulga in a rash and fatal meal of impaled humble bee. —I am; &c., : •''*2 s*' ■ O •"./ w Alex. J. Rutherford, * Hon. Sec. W.A.S.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 771, 10 December 1886, Page 19
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