Hum Of Insects
Hum of Insects – Robert Lynd
As the hum of insects and noises of birds are associated with nature and seasons, so are they connected to our life, right from our childhood. When we grow up, these sounds occasionally pull us back to our childhood. In a way, our happiness, other than that achieved from people, has its origin in the nature, in spring and summer, in the hum and noises of insects and birds.
The author begins with insects like bees, wasps and mosquitoes and analyse their behavior
Insects are part of our lives and that doesn’t mean that we like to have them with us. While a bee or wasp is gentle, we do not like their company in our bed rooms though we like them in a garden. The mosquito is an unscrupulous enemy that attacks without waiting to be attacked. It stings anyone, whether he is the gentlest or the most dangerous man in the world. Because a mosquito is a beast of prey and is out for food, we wave it away even in a garden.
Bees and wasps are comparatively gentler than the unscrupulous mosquito yet they exhibit a wild passion for revenge. If they are attacked by someone, even a mad dog in the countryside, they take revenge by attacking someone else, anyone whose sight their eyes catch first. It is therefore that innocent people are sometimes attacked by wasps and bees.
A bee is gentle. It doesn’t attack unless it is attacked. A mosquito, on the very other hand, stings anyone for blood. Besides, a bee, the producer of honey, doesn’t cause malaria as the mosquito does. Apart from helping the strawberries and mulberry to multiply, bees prefer a very calm, inoffensive life.
If a bee or wasp, though gentle in character, enter our bedroom at two in the morning and buzzed behind our pillow, is a tedious company. Though we can avoid getting stung by not moving, lying motionlessly till the inoffensive bee or wasp had flown away, it is not desirable to try this preventive when sleep is dearest and time is passing by.
Bees and wasps do not attack us without
As the hum of insects and noises of birds are associated with nature and seasons, so are they connected to our life, right from our childhood. When we grow up, these sounds occasionally pull us back to our childhood. In a way, our happiness, other than that achieved from people, has its origin in the nature, in spring and summer, in the hum and noises of insects and birds.
The author begins with insects like bees, wasps and mosquitoes and analyse their behavior
Insects are part of our lives and that doesn’t mean that we like to have them with us. While a bee or wasp is gentle, we do not like their company in our bed rooms though we like them in a garden. The mosquito is an unscrupulous enemy that attacks without waiting to be attacked. It stings anyone, whether he is the gentlest or the most dangerous man in the world. Because a mosquito is a beast of prey and is out for food, we wave it away even in a garden.
Bees and wasps are comparatively gentler than the unscrupulous mosquito yet they exhibit a wild passion for revenge. If they are attacked by someone, even a mad dog in the countryside, they take revenge by attacking someone else, anyone whose sight their eyes catch first. It is therefore that innocent people are sometimes attacked by wasps and bees.
A bee is gentle. It doesn’t attack unless it is attacked. A mosquito, on the very other hand, stings anyone for blood. Besides, a bee, the producer of honey, doesn’t cause malaria as the mosquito does. Apart from helping the strawberries and mulberry to multiply, bees prefer a very calm, inoffensive life.
If a bee or wasp, though gentle in character, enter our bedroom at two in the morning and buzzed behind our pillow, is a tedious company. Though we can avoid getting stung by not moving, lying motionlessly till the inoffensive bee or wasp had flown away, it is not desirable to try this preventive when sleep is dearest and time is passing by.
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