. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 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
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 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 very hard to de- scribe without an illustration, but it is none the less useful to the bee. A bee has four wings which also have their points of attachment in the tho- rax. They, too, are very strong, and, on the whole, are a Que piece of organ- ism. When at rest, they are folded very closely to the body and occupy but little space. They carry a contriv- ance for increasing the bee's wing sur- face, and at the same time not have them extend beyond the body when folded. A flying animal must have a wing surface proportionate to the size of its body. A common blue fly has two very large wings, and when at rest they extend out from the body so that, at the widest points, they are about one-half inch from tip to tip. This would not do for a bee, for it must be able to enter a cell Hve of which make an inch. Of course, a bee has two wings on each side, but this would not aid i
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