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safeguards. A bee settling on a passive native probably 

 behaves as it would on a tree or other inanimate substance, 

 which it does not attempt to sting. Still they must often 

 suffer, but they are used to the pain and learn to bear it 

 impassively, as without doing so no man could be a bee- 

 hunter. 



