38 WHAT TO DO IN THE COUNTRY 



Never forget to watch the Bees. You can 

 always see Bees wherever there are flowers. 

 Notice the black sword -like tongue as it dips 

 down into the honey-pots of the flowers. Bees 

 don't need to be told where the flowers store their 

 honey. 



Pick off one of the golden petals of the Butter- 

 cups and look at the pointed end where the petal 

 was joined on. You will see, and you can feel 

 also, a little knob. That little raised knob forms 

 the honey-basket, and if the Buttercup has five 

 petals there will be five honey-baskets in that one 

 Buttercup, and the Bee will make five dips with 

 its tongue before it leaves the flower. 



You all know how Bees, besides sipping the 

 honey, gather pollen-dust from the flowers. After 

 gathering it they make it into two little golden 

 balls and pack it into two hairy pollen baskets 

 which they carry on one pair of their legs. Now 

 I want you to watch and see if you can tell me on 

 which pair (for it is only on one pair of the Bee's 

 legs) these pollen baskets are. 



Sometimes Bees go out specially to gather 

 pollen, and if you use your eyes you will be sure to 

 see a pollen-gathering Bee who looks as if it had 

 on yellow knickerbockers. If a Bee pops its head 

 into a flower in which there is another creature, 

 perhaps an Earwig, it will withdraw at once, give 

 an astonished hum as much as to say, " Well, I 



