Happy World Bee Day! 🐝

In my latest blog post you can read Isaac Watts' delightful 18th century poem "How Doth the Little Busy Bee," but also find out a little something about Anton Janša, Slovenian apiarist whose work laid the foundation of modern beekeeping.

https://grammaticus.blog/2025/05/20/how-doth-the-little-busy-bee/

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A poem for World Bee Day: “How Doth the Little Busy Bee” by Isaac Watts

In this poem, Watts uses the example of the bee as a model for human life. The poem’s moral lesson is that we should avoid being idle and lazy, and spend our time “in books, or work, or healt…

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