Remembering EB White
Life With Wings. 1 of 4 Panels. Copyright Mika Holtzinger 2008. Click to view more.
As you may know, EB White was the author of the much-beloved books “Charlotte’s Web,” “Stuart Little” and “The Elements of Style.” But did you also know he was a dedicated beekeeper? With a dash of humor, E.B. White addressed queen rearing in this poem, which was published in The New Yorker December 15, 1945:
Song of the Queen Bee
“The breeding of the bee,” says a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin on artificial insemination, “has always been handicapped by the fact that the queen mates in the air with whatever drone she encounters.”
When the air is wine and the wind is free
and the morning sits on the lovely leaf,
and sunlight ripples on every tree
Then love-in-air is the thing for me
I’m a bee,
I’m a ravishing, rollicking, young queen bee,
That’s me.
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