. The bee people. Bees. 36 The Bee People. as a boy shuts his knife-blade into the handle. Getting honey is very easy where it is in open cups, but sometimes the flower sweets are in the bottoms of tubes too long for the bee's tongue to reach them. What is she to do in such a case ? When she smells a delicious meal which she can- not reach, shall she pass by with a sigh because she can not get it? Sometimes Bumbie-Bee. siie js obliged to, but some- times she is helped by the bumble-bees. These are much larger than honey-bees; and you will know them because they are covered all over with hair,
. The bee people. Bees. 36 The Bee People. as a boy shuts his knife-blade into the handle. Getting honey is very easy where it is in open cups, but sometimes the flower sweets are in the bottoms of tubes too long for the bee's tongue to reach them. What is she to do in such a case ? When she smells a delicious meal which she can- not reach, shall she pass by with a sigh because she can not get it? Sometimes Bumbie-Bee. siie js obliged to, but some- times she is helped by the bumble-bees. These are much larger than honey-bees; and you will know them because they are covered all over with hair, as if they had on furry coats. Honey-bees have very little hair on the body below the waist. Bumble- bees have broad bands of yellow hairs across their bodies, and sometimes the whole thorax, or part between the head and waist, is bright yellow. Bumble-bees can always be found in red clover fields. Their horny tongue-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Morley, Margaret Warner, 1858- [from old catalog]. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and company
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