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for immediate use, while a considerable portion is 

 sealed over, after having each cell filled out with 

 honey : it will then keep good for winter use, and 

 frequently remains so for years. 



This deposit is usually made in worker cells. It 

 is true that bees sometimes are seen entering their 

 hives, covered with the dust-like pollen of flowers 

 without any pellets of the same, but they are invari- 

 ably laden with honey, their excursion being only for 

 the latter. 



This dust is brushed off their bodies and is mostly 

 found on the bottom of the hive, (if flat) where it 

 serves as food for worms as well as a favorite lurking 

 place for them. 



A bee will confine itself to one kind of flower 

 while collecting a load, either of honey or pollen ; and 

 if both are found in the same flower, they load partly 

 with each. 



The color of pollen is always the same in the same 

 kind of flower, hence the load of a bee is of the same 

 color as that from which it is gathered. And as 

 flowers are found of every color, so we see the bees 

 returning to their homes each laden with pollen of a 

 different hue. Even the honey is tinged from the 

 same cause. 



USE OF POLLEN. 



Pollen is used solely as food. In connection with 

 honey, it is indispensable for the nutrition of the 

 young. It is also consumed by the adult bees ; yet 



