. Biology in America. Biology. Color in Nature 331 existing between them. The body of a worker honey bee, which gathers the honey and the pollen for the hive, and performs all the other "chores" of the bee community, such as those of nurse maid, house cleaner, biitler, architect, po- liceman, and even executioner and undertaker, is clothed with numerous branched hairs, to which the pollen adheres as &e bee goes crawling about in the cups of the flowers which it visits. On one of the joints of the middle leg of the bee is a groove, overhung by rows of stiff bristles, form- ing the
. Biology in America. Biology. Color in Nature 331 existing between them. The body of a worker honey bee, which gathers the honey and the pollen for the hive, and performs all the other "chores" of the bee community, such as those of nurse maid, house cleaner, biitler, architect, po- liceman, and even executioner and undertaker, is clothed with numerous branched hairs, to which the pollen adheres as &e bee goes crawling about in the cups of the flowers which it visits. On one of the joints of the middle leg of the bee is a groove, overhung by rows of stiff bristles, form- ing the "pollen basket," while another joint of the same leg carries several rows of bristles or "pollen combs," by means of which the pollen is combed out of the hairs and trans- ferred to the pollen basket where it sticks in the form of a large ball. The "basket" enables the bee to carry more. Eelation of Bee and Flower, a Salvia. 1, flower parts in usual position; 2, anthers ereet; 3, anthers tipped down; 4, bee entering flower; 5, flower with extruded style. From Kellogg, after Lubbock. pollen to its hive than it could if it depended solely on the hairs for this purpose. A part of the bee's esophagus is enlarged to form a "honey sac" in which is stored the nec- tar which it sucks from the flowei-s, and which in the hive is evaporated to form the honey. As the bee goes buzzing about from flower to flower, in search of nectar, some of the pollen from one flower is trans- ferred to another, and fertilization is thus effected. The manifold modifications of various types of flowers to ensure transference of pollen by insects, and to admit only those species which will pay for their supply of honey by trans- ferring pollen, the insect Bolsheviki and 's, which would appropriate the honey but carry no pollen in return,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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