14 The Bee People. 
When insects carry pollen to the stigmas, 
we say they fertilize the flowers. Unless a 
flower is fertilized, it will bear no seed. 
Bees eat pollen as well as honey, and 
while gathering it from different flowers 
they are sure to dust the stigmas. 
Flowers can be fertilized only by pollen 
from other flowers of their own kind. 
Lilies can be fertilized only by pollen from 
other lilies, and roses by the pollen of other 
roses. Lily pollen cannot fertilize a rose, 
nor can any pollen fertilize any flower but 
one of its own particular kind. 
The three chief parts of a bee are the 
head, the thorax, and the abdomen. 
The head bears the antenne, tongue, and 
eyes. 
The thorax has attached to it the wings 
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and legs. 
In the abdo- 
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