Amazing bees; MAILBAG.I READ with amazement the article in the June 23 edition of your newspaper with regard to the "livestock" ie honey bees at the allotment A portion, share, or division. The proportionate distribution of shares of stock in a corporation. The partition and distribution of land. ALLOTMENT. Distribution by lot; partition. Merl. Rep. h.t. in Oakes. Mr John Fletcher of Kirklees Culture and Leisure Services Department says it is right for bees to be classed as livestock, as the definition of livestock is any animal and the definition of insect is an animal. I don't know which dictionary Mr Fletcher uses, but in my dictionary an insect is defined as "any of a class of small air-breathing arthropod arthropod Any member of the largest phylum, Arthropoda, in the animal kingdom. Arthropoda consists of more than one million known invertebrate species in four subphyla: Uniramia (five classes, including insects), Chelicerata (three classes, including arachnids and horseshoe with a body divided into head, thorax thorax, body division found in certain animals. In humans and other mammals it lies between the neck and abdomen and is also called the chest. The skeletal frame of the thorax is formed by the sternum (breastbone) and ribs in front and the dorsal vertebrae in back. and abdomen, three pairs of legs and (in most cases) two pairs of wings". Does this sound like any animal anyone know? A cow, sheep, goat perhaps? PAULA MARSH Netherthong |
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