. The bee people. Bees. 54 The Bee People. If you look at her body and at the upper part of all her six legs, you will find them covered with long" hairs. If you look at the hairs under a magnifying glass you will find them branched, as you see in the picture. When Miss Apis wants pollen she scrapes it from the anther cells with her claws, and gathers it together with her legs. Very often her whole body becomes dusted with it, and wherever the pollen grains touch the branched hairs they cling fast to them. Miss Apis wriggles about in the flowers, scraping out the pollen with her feet, and
. The bee people. Bees. 54 The Bee People. If you look at her body and at the upper part of all her six legs, you will find them covered with long" hairs. If you look at the hairs under a magnifying glass you will find them branched, as you see in the picture. When Miss Apis wants pollen she scrapes it from the anther cells with her claws, and gathers it together with her legs. Very often her whole body becomes dusted with it, and wherever the pollen grains touch the branched hairs they cling fast to them. Miss Apis wriggles about in the flowers, scraping out the pollen with her feet, and collecting it on her branched hairs. Then she carefully brushes it together, and by means of her legs transfers it to her pollen baskets. For you must know she has a num- ber of brushes on her legs to help her to gather up the 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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