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I chased him some distance and got him going fast, away from the bee tree, and then I came back for the wagon.”

“Pa’s found a bee tree,” Ma said.

For dinner they all had as much of the delicious honey as they could eat, and Pa told them how he found the bee tree.

Seeley “calls for ‘Darwinian beekeeping”, modelled after Darwinian medicine, which posits that mismatches between the current environment and the environment to which an organism originally adapted diminish the organism’s fitness” — in this case, the differences between life in a bee tree and life in a beehive.

For Seeley, this relates mainly to the differences between life in a bee tree and life in a beehive, especially in the northeastern United States.