Male+honey-bee
31Dransfield — This interesting and unusual name spelt Dron or Drane may be the reverse of its literal meaning. The derivation is from Olde English dran and means the drone an idle and lazy person! Medieval humour was extremley robust, and role reversal was… …
32Dronsfield — This interesting and unusual name spelt Dron or Drane may be the reverse of its literal meaning. The derivation is from Olde English dran and means the drone an idle and lazy person! Medieval humour was extremley robust, and role reversal was… …
33Drowsfield — This interesting and unusual name spelt Dron or Drane may be the reverse of its literal meaning. The derivation is from Olde English dran and means the drone an idle and lazy person! Medieval humour was extremley robust, and role reversal was… …
34Dron — This is an English nickname for a lazy person, deriving from the Medieval English drane meaning a drone i.e. a male honey bee renowned for its inactivity. In Ireland the name is used as an anglicization of the Gaelic names O Dreain and Drohan,,… …
35O'Dreain — This very interesting English surname has several possible origins. Recorded in the various spellings of Drane, Drain, Dran, Drayn, Dreng, Drains etc. the most likely explanation for most nameholders is that they are of Norse Viking origins. The… …
36drone — I. n. 1. Male honey bee. 2. Idler, sluggard, lounger, idle fellow, lazy fellow, do nothing, good for nothing. 3. Humming, humming noise. 4. Droning pipe (in bagpipe), drone pipe. II. v. n. 1. Lounge, dawdle, idle, waste time in trifles, live in… …
37Bees and toxic chemicals — Bees can suffer serious effects from toxic chemicals in their environment. This includes various synthetic chemicals, such as insecticides and fertilizers, as well as a variety of naturally occurring chemicals from plants, such as ethanol… …
38beekeeping — /bee kee ping/, n. the rearing and breeding of honeybees; apiculture. [1830 40; BEE1 + KEEPING] * * * or apiculture Care and manipulation of honeybees to enable them to produce and store more honey than they need so that the excess can be… …
39Beekeeping — [cite web| last =Traynor | first =Kirsten | title =Ancient Cave Painting Man of Bicorp | publisher =MD Bee | url =http://www.mdbee.com/articles/cavepainting.html format =Web article | accessdate =2008 03 12 ] ] Beekeeping (or apiculture, from… …
40Bumblebee — Taxobox name = Bombus image width = 200px image caption = male Bombus terrestris robbing nectar regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera familia = Apidae subfamilia = Apinae tribus = Bombini genus = Bombus genus… …
