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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
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But
if
you
watch
bees
carefully,
especially
in
the
spring-time,
you
will
find
that
they
carry
off
something
else
besides
honey.
Early
in
the
morning,
when
the
dew
is
on
the
ground,
or
later
in
the
day,
in
moist
shady
places,
you
may
see
a
bee
rubbing
itself
against
a
flower,
or
biting
those
bags
of
yellow
dust
or
pollen
which
we
mentioned
in
Lecture
VII.
When
she
has
covered
herself
with
pollen,
she
will
brush
it
off
with
her
feet,
and,
bringing
it
to
her
mouth,
she
will
moisten
and
roll
it
into
a
little
ball,
and
then
pass
it
back
from
the
first
pair
of
legs
to
the
second
and
so
to
the
third
or
hinder
pair.
Here
she
will
pack
it
into
a
little
hairy
groove
called
a
"basket"
in
the
joint
of
one
of
the
hind
legs,
where
you
may
see
it,
looking
like
a
swelled
joint,
as
she
hovers
among
the
flowers.
She
often
fills
both
hind
legs
in
this
way,
and
when
she
arrives
back
at
the
hive
the
nursing
bees
take
the
lumps
form
her,
and
eat
it
themselves,
or
mix
it
with
honey
to
feed
the
young
bees;
or,
when
they
have
any
to
spare,
store
it
away
in
old
honey-cells
to
be
used
by-and-by.
This
is
the
dark,
bitter
stuff
called
"bee-
bread"
which
you
often
find
in
a
honeycomb,
especially
in
a
comb
which
has
been
filled
late
in
the
summer.
When
the
bee
has
been
relieved
of
the
bee-bread
she
goes
off
to
one
of
the
clean
cells
in
the
new
comb,
and,
standing
on
the
edge,
throws
up
the
honey
from
the
honey-bag
into
the
cell.
One
cell
will
hold
the
contents
of
many
honey-bags,
and
so
the
busy
little
workers
have
to
work
all
day
filling
cell
after
cell,
in
which
the
honey
lies
uncovered,
being
too
thick
and
sticky
to
flow
out,
and
is
used
for
daily
food
-
unless
there
is
any
to
spare,
and
then
they
close
up
the
cells
with
wax
to
keep
for
the
winter.
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