COLLECTION OP FOOD BY BEES. 
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able instinct on the part of the Queen; and this is further 
manifested in the fact, that she never deposits eggs in the 
comb which fills the glasses that are sometimes placed on 
the top of a hive, as in fig. 287, the temperature of these 
glasses being necessarily lower than that of the interior of 
the hive.—The “ royal cells, v as they are termed, in which 
the larvae of the young queens are reared, are different in 
form from the rest (fig. 288); sometimes they lie in the 
midst of them; but most commonly they project from the 
sides or edges of the comb. 
715. The food which the Bees collect is of two kinds,— 
the honey of flowers for themselves, and the pollen for their 
larvae. The honey, which they suck-up by means of their 
proboscis-like tongues (fig. 289), seems to undergo some change 
Fig. 290. 
Hind Leg of Worker. 
Fig. 289 .—Bee’s Mouth. 
in their digestive cavity ; and the part not required for nourish¬ 
ment is afterwards returned from the stomach, and deposited 
in one of the cells, which, when filled, is sealed with a cover¬ 
ing of wax. The pollen is gathered by rubbing the body either 
against the anthers, or against other parts of the flower over 
which it may have been scattered by their bursting; and 
when the surface of the body has been sufficiently dusted 
with its fine particles, these are collected from it by little 
brushes with which the feet of the Bee are furnished, and are 
worked-up into small pellets, which the Insect carries home 
in basket-shaped hollows, of which there is one on each 
hind-thigh (fig. 290). The pollen or farina thus collected is 
worked-up with honey in a mass, to which the name of 
u bee bread ” has been given; and with this the larvae are 
