More about what bees collect for use as propolis:


A family -- where they kept bees -- was called to part with a Ioved one. The funeral ceremony was over and the procession started from the house, and had gone but a few rods when they saw the bees following them; they stopped, went and dressed the hive in mourning, and the bees returned.

A clergyman told me that he attended a funeral, where as soon as the coffin was brought from the house, the bees gathered upon it so as to excite much alarm. Some years after this occurrence, being engaged in varnishing a table, the bees alighted upon it in such numbers, as to convince him that love of varnish, rather than sorrow or respect for the dead, was the occasion of their conduct at the funeral.

We leave this matter at present, with the remark which Mr. Langstroth makes in bis book, “The Hive and the Honey Bee,” after relating the above instance: “How many superstitions, believed even by intelligent persons, might be easily explained, if it were possible to ascertain as fully all the facts connected with them!” 

-- Daily State Register. August 16, 1867.

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