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In another experiment, M. Huber confined. a swarm so that 

 they had access to nothing beside honey, and five times 

 successively removed the combs with the precaution of pre- 

 venting the escape of the bees from the apartment. On each 

 occasion they produced new combs, which puts it beyond 

 dispute that honey is sufficient to effect the secretion of wax 

 without the aid of pollen. Instead of supplying the bees 

 with honey, they were subsequently fed, exclusively, on 

 pollen and fruit ; but though they were kept in captivity for 

 eight days under a bell-glass, with a comb containing nothing 

 but farina, they neither made wax nor was any secreted under 

 the rings. In another series of experiments, in which bees 

 were fed with different sorts of sugar, it was found that 

 nearly one-sixth of the sugar was converted into wax, dark- 

 coloured sugar yielding more than double the quantity of 

 refined sugar. 



It may not be out of place to subjoin the few anatomical 

 and physiological facts which have been ascertained by 

 Huber, Maddle. Jurine, and Latreille. 



The first stomach of the worker-bee, according to Latreille,* 



Worker-bee, magnified showing the position of the scales of Wax. 



is appropriated to the reception of honey, but this is never 

 found in the second stomach, which is surrounded with mus- 



* Latreille, Mem. Acad. des Sciences, 1821. 



