Sentences with phrase «like worker bees»

The Nismo crew scurry around the Calsonic GT - R like worker bees tending to the queen.

I felt like I was floating, floating on the love and prayers of all those who hummed around me like worker bees, bringing notes and flowers and warm socks and quilts embroidered with words of encouragement.

Maybe he's like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something.

Not exact matches

Being that you now have a team of worker - bees in place, your company needs to act like it.

If... men were reared under precisely the same conditions as hive - bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker - bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would strive to kill their fertile daughters; and no one would think of interfering.

I lost my father that way, and my mother paid on his medical bills for years and years * after * his death, never once considering bankruptcy, like a good single mom worker bee.

In the summer of 2015, Cox showed me several hives that bore the standard signs: healthy brood; good stores of pollen and nectar, or «bee food,» and little else; a few straggling workers, maybe 10 percent of the population he had last week; and a big queen, running around her now - empty castle like a mom, knowing that without her stable of workers she'll be unable to feed her babies.

Like workaholic employees, worker bees, ants, and wasps give up families of their own for the good of the hive.

Two years ago he and other entomologists went to work on what sounded like the scenario for rip - roaring fiction: widespread, unexplained disappearances of honey bee workers that left the youngsters and queen behind for no obvious reason.

To establish that it happens in nature, too, Vargo and his colleagues collected 30 colonies of the destructive Reticulitermes speratus, a Japanese species related to most common termites in the U.S. Like bees and ants, termites are social insects that have different castes for different jobs (such as workers and royalty).

Recently, Paul Sherman, an animal behaviorist at Cornell, and Timothy Judd, a graduate student at Colorado State University, have observed another hive - like trait among the pink, gerbil - size animals: some of them behave — at least in laboratory colonies — like selfless worker bees, providing food for the rest of a sometimes indolent colony.

Like any good little worker bee, my professional wardrobe is full of button downs, blouses, and sweaters and when it comes to being comfortably professional they get the job done (for the most part).

What Drive did for the existential neo-noirs of Walter Hill and Michael Mann, Safe does for the artless carnage-fests of studio worker bees like Mark Lester (Commando) and John Irvin (Raw Deal).

These artists are acting like industrious junior postmodernist worker bees, trying to crawl into the body of and imitate the good old days of abstraction, deploying visual signals of Suprematism, color - field painting, minimalism, post-minimalism, Italian Arte Povera, Japanese Mono - ha, process art, modified action painting, all gesturing toward guys like Polke, Richter, Warhol, Wool, Prince, Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Wade Guyton, Rudolf Stingel, Sergej Jensen, and Michael Krebber.

Business Week recently shared the story of Mark Ostermann, a consultant in the Chicago office of The Boston Consulting Group, who had been putting in 60 - plus - hour weeks for a month and a half straight, when he attracted the attention of the firm's «Red Zone» police — a program apparently designed to make sure worker bees like Ostermann don't burn out.

Seems like a way to turn an office full of energy filled go - getters with lofty goals into group of 9 - 5 worker bees that just count the minutes until its time to go home or wish the weekend would hurry and get here.