All 3 Uses of
forage
in
The Secret Life of Bees
- During spring and summer—the most strenuous periods of foraging—a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks…
p. 189.1 *foraging = searching for and gathering food
- Threatened by all kinds of dangers during their foraging flights, many workers die before they have reached even that age.
p. 189.2foraging = searching for and gathering food or something else that is desired
- It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey.
p. 214.0foraging = searching and gathering
Definition:
to search for and gather -- often food and provisions