. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 752 AMERICAN BEE VMJUMI^iliiii Digesting Food and Storing It for Future Use. Query 875.—Is there any other animal or insect except the honey-bee that digests its food, and stores it for future use after it is digested 7—P. W. Yes.—Will M. Baknum. Yes.—Mks. J. N Heater. I don't know.—E. France. Please ask me something I know.—J. M. Hambaugh. No; and further, the bees do no such thing.—G. W. Demaree. I don't think of any unless it is the bumble-bee.—S. I. Freeborn. I know of none, and do not except the honey-bee.—Jas. A. Stone. I'm only a bee-
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 752 AMERICAN BEE VMJUMI^iliiii Digesting Food and Storing It for Future Use. Query 875.—Is there any other animal or insect except the honey-bee that digests its food, and stores it for future use after it is digested 7—P. W. Yes.—Will M. Baknum. Yes.—Mks. J. N Heater. I don't know.—E. France. Please ask me something I know.—J. M. Hambaugh. No; and further, the bees do no such thing.—G. W. Demaree. I don't think of any unless it is the bumble-bee.—S. I. Freeborn. I know of none, and do not except the honey-bee.—Jas. A. Stone. I'm only a bee-keeper, not a naturalist or entomologist.—C. C. Miller. I do not know whether the bee digests its food or not.—Mrs. L. Harrison. Some other bees do it. I think some birds do something akin to it.—A. J. Cook. The honey-bee does not do it. Honey has never been ";—Emerson T. Abbott. Ask Prof. Cook. I do not know any- thing about this " digested ;—G. M. Doolittle. Is P. W. a mistake for W. D. ? See Query 874. I'll resign in favor of Prof. Cook.—R. L. Taylor. Look at Dr. Miller's answer. I dislike to say "I don't know," for he might accuse me of plagiarism.—A. B. Mason. I am not aware that any animal, not excepting the honey-bee, does digest its food, and then stores for future use.— J. P. H. Brown. Bees only partially digest their food before storing it, according to our best authorities. It is quite likely that other insects practices the same sort of econ- omy. Bees are not " ;—C. H. Dibbern. Your question suggests the inference that bees do digest the nectar which they gather before storing it. I cannot accept that as true. I do not believe it is true.—Eugene Secor. Now, my friend, do you believe that the bees "fully digest" the honey as you state in your query? If they fully digested it, would they have any to store?—H. D. Cutting. We do not believe that even the ho
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