Humble-bees dig holes in the earth with their front feet. Is it not odd that bees can make so much wax from their small wax-bags?ĭid you ever find in the earth the nest of a humble-bee? The humble-bee queen works.
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When a man took them out, they had two big tubs full of comb. The bees got into the roof and lived there five years. I knew of a swarm that found a hole in the roof of a house. Swarms of bees that leave hives find odd places to live in. In hot lands, some bees build in holes in the rock. How can he do that? His eye-pegs are so long he can bend them down flat to the shell and keep them safe in the notch.ĭo all bees build in hives? No. This is a notch in each side of his shell. The eye-pegs of one kind of crab are very long. I think he knows that he is very careful of his eyes. He will first pinch you, if he can, with his big claw.Ī crab's leg, or hand, will grow again very soon, when one has been lost.īut if his eye-peg is cut off, it takes a whole year for a new eye to grow. When you catch a crab by his arm or leg, if you do not let go, he drops off this arm or leg, and runs. When the small crabs come out of the eggs, they grow very fast. She carries them tied on her legs, or under her body. The crab's eggs are put in a long tube or sack. She keeps them warm till the chicks come out. The crab can live and breathe either in water or on land.Ī hen, you know, lays eggs, one by one, in a nest. His bones are his armor, to keep him from being hurt. Crab's bones are on the outside of his body. Your bones are a frame to hold up your soft flesh. I could, for a year, tell you queer things about Mr. This book tells you of only a few of them. There are more kinds of crabs than you could count. Some crabs have sand-colored shells - pale gray or brown shells, with close, fine specks like sand on them. The young crabs have to change their shells often, they grow so fast.Ĭrabs that live in dark mud have dark brown and green shells. Crab stays near, and tries to keep her from being hurt. It has the right colors - blue, brown, red, or gold. He pulls out his feet and hands, as if he took off his boots and his gloves.īut over all his body is spread a skin, soft as paste, like glue and lime. He pulls his legs, his hands, and his back, out of his shell. Crab finds that his shell is too small, he takes it off, as you take off your coat. What do you do when your coat is too small?
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Your skin gets larger as your body grows. When crabs get a new shell we say they molt.Īs you grow more and more, your skin does not break.
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The next new coat, the new hand or leg comes out the full size it should be. Then when he gets a new coat, the new hand or leg bedrooms half as large as the one he lost. Crab has lost a leg or hand, and a new one grows, it is small at first. He knows that the tide will pass, and he has bugs to eat. He knows that the tide will wash a lump of sand over his hole, for a door.Īt the last wave he jumps through his door, for he knows the next wave will close it. Some folks think he shuts the door of his house with his big hand. I have seen him try twice, and make the shell shake before he found how hard he must hit, to get it out of the way. He struck it hard as he ran, and made it fly up. Let us look at this crab he has let go the rag, and has gone to dig in his house. We had to catch the dog, and pry open the crab's claw. The dog gave yelps, and ran up and down the beach. Once I saw a blue crab catch a dog's tail. You can lift him into the air by the rag still he holds on. He fears birds most for birds eat small crabs and the crab cannot fight a big bird. If your hand is cut off, will it grow again?īut he is very brave, and does not much fear other crabs. He runs home to hide, until a new eye, or hand, or leg can grow. If only a leg is cut off, the crab may keep on fighting.īut if his hand, or eye, or back shell is hurt, he must give up. Sometimes one crab cuts off the hand or leg of the other crab.
This big claw, or hand, can cut and pinch hard. He pulls in his eye-pegs, for fear they will be hurt.Įach tries to hit the other with his big claw. When he sees some other crab near his house, he is angry.
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