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A History of the County of Shropshire
… pigeons, geese, calves, pasture, cheese, dairy products, bees, gardens, fishponds, and mills (built or to be built); …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (late). References: SMU Archeology (online). Yellow wax BEES WAX in its natural state as obtained from the hive, it … wax seems to have been sold in the purified form of WHITE BEES WAX. A 1631 patent claimed a method of 'making … (1631)]. OED earliest date of use: 1601 See also WHITE BEES WAX. Sources: Inventories (early), Inventories …
A History of the County of Somerset
… (Dale) HYMENOPTERA The order Hymenoptera includes ants, bees, wasps, sawflies and ichneumon-flies, and is by many … twenty-five species, of which five have been introduced. Bees and wasps number about 350 species, and the sawflies are … Fb., is sometimes too abundant throughout the county where bees are kept The Tortrices and Tineina have not had much …