. The bee people. Bees. Miss Apis's Legs. 55 These brushes are tufts or rows of stiff hairs that are not branched. If we look on the under side of her hind leg", the same that bears the pollen basket on the fourth joint of its upper side, we shall see two kinds of brushes or combs for gathering the pol- len together, the stiff hairs on the edge of the fourth joint, and the sharp teeth that cover the fifth joint. Each hind leg is supplied with these use- ful brushes, and one hind leg scrapes the pollen into the basket of the other. The first chance you gtt you must watch Miss Apis gatherin
. The bee people. Bees. Miss Apis's Legs. 55 These brushes are tufts or rows of stiff hairs that are not branched. If we look on the under side of her hind leg", the same that bears the pollen basket on the fourth joint of its upper side, we shall see two kinds of brushes or combs for gathering the pol- len together, the stiff hairs on the edge of the fourth joint, and the sharp teeth that cover the fifth joint. Each hind leg is supplied with these use- ful brushes, and one hind leg scrapes the pollen into the basket of the other. The first chance you gtt you must watch Miss Apis gathering pollen. Sometimes she looks as if she were running about over a head of flowers to find something she had lost,—now this way and now that she goes in a great hurry, then turns around and around. But she has not lost anything, and she has not gone crazy; she is merely collecting pollen as fast as she can, and if. 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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