. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. TWM M'mmmicmm mmm jO'tjKifMiLr. 225 out loss of material, it is so arranged that it can, by an automatic movement, throw the " pulvillus " back and let its claws come in contact with the surface on which it is walking, or it can turn up the claws and let the " pulvillus " touch, at pleasure. ItH PoIIen-Sacs. You have all, no doubt, seen bees in the summer, when they were busy, come home to the hive with a peculiar looking substance sticking to the inside of their hind legs. This substance is the pollen of the male organs of flow- e
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. TWM M'mmmicmm mmm jO'tjKifMiLr. 225 out loss of material, it is so arranged that it can, by an automatic movement, throw the " pulvillus " back and let its claws come in contact with the surface on which it is walking, or it can turn up the claws and let the " pulvillus " touch, at pleasure. ItH PoIIen-Sacs. You have all, no doubt, seen bees in the summer, when they were busy, come home to the hive with a peculiar looking substance sticking to the inside of their hind legs. This substance is the pollen of the male organs of flow- ers, and it furnishes part of the food of the nurse bees. The little cavity in which it is fastened is called the " pol- len-basket," for it is a cavity that is formed by stiff hairs and the shape of the leg. The bee gathers this pollen with its tongue and the hairs of its legs and body, and then, by the use of the. Bee's Tongue, same tongue and legs, it forms the pol- len into minute balls. It then takes them up with the front legs, passes them back to the middle legs, and with these packs them snugly away in the pollen-baskets of the hind legs until the pollen stands up and hangs over much like the way that hay does when loaded into a wagon bed. There is a little spine or spur, on one of the joints of the second, or middle, legs by which it removes this pollen, when it reaches the hive, very much as a man puts a crowbar under a stone to lift it up. There is one other little organ on each of the front legs, to which I desire briefly to call your attention, and then I must leave this part of the subject and hasten on to other things of inter- est. 1 can assure you , however, I have only hinted at the wonderful organism of a bee's leg when I have done this. There is a peculiar notch, or opening, on each of the front legs with which a bee wipes its nose very much as you have seen an unclean boy wipe his with his coat sleeve. It is also used to clean off its tongue. It is
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