IS IT POSSIBLE ?
BEE 75 YEARS OLD
Mr Thomas Burgess, superintendent of Kcns’al Green "Cemetery, writes to the “Express” relating a story of a bee which lived underground for seventyfive year*. He says: —“While two of my men wore digging a grave, alid when 6 1 .feet down from the present surface, they came on the original maiden earth, which has been covered since 1836, with earth thrown out at that date when excavating for. the foundations and catacombs under our church, Vln throwing out a spadeful of the virgin mould: under this mound it split up and broke on the board and a. large bee known as the ‘1 humble’ bee) .came out of, the soil. Considering that the ground above was solid, loamy clay, and 6 feet 6' inches deep, it would be impossible for a bee to get down ibis depth. Is it possible, therefore, that this insect was covered up in 1836?”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3257, 30 June 1911, Page 2
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156IS IT POSSIBLE ? Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3257, 30 June 1911, Page 2
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