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their tongues are remarkably well developed, and thus they 

 are enabled readily to suck the honey from the nectaries of 

 all sorts of flowers. Then two hollow cavities are found on 

 the thighs of the hindmost pair of legs, and in these they 

 carry home the pollen they collect. From this, mixed with 

 honey, they prepare a substance called " bee-bread," which 

 they place in the cells as food for the larvse. 



The workers secrete wax from wax-glands, of which each 

 is furnished with eight, situated beneath the abdominal 

 segments ; this they fashion into cells of a hexagonal shape, 



b 



FIG. 25. THE HONEY-BEE (Apis mellifica). 

 a, Worker, b, Drone. 



some of which are used for the storage of honey, and in 

 others, eggs are laid by the queen. When the egg hatches, 

 the workers supply the young larva with bee-bread for 

 about ten days, and then seal up the cell. In this closed 

 cell the larva changes to a chrysalis, from which, at the 

 expiration of another ten days, a bee emerges, and in a few 

 hours takes its place in the social community of which it 

 forms a part, 



Drones are the male bees, of which, in a largo hive, there 

 may be as many as one, or even two hundred. They usually 

 appear about May, and are very different in structure from 

 the workers, having neither pollen-sacs, wax-glands, poison- 



