
v TAKING) NESTS QI 
their nest is opened; the majority of the workers 
remain quietly on the comb, and the few that take 
wing fly straight away. 
The humble-bee does not lose its sting in the 


Fic. 17.—Nest of Bombus helferanus, natural size. 
act of stinging, like the honey-bee ; it can therefore 
use it more than once, but the poison is less virulent 
than that of the honey-bee or the wasp. 
And now, having all the bees safely collected in 
one of the glass jars and the comb in the box, we 
