44 The Bee People. 
the pollen grains cannot. They are kept 
back in the stomach by this clever little 
Strainer, and only pure nectar or honey can 
get back into the honey-sac. 
When Miss Apis gets to the hive, she 
makes the muscles of her honey-sac squeeze 
the honey into her mouth, and she then puts 
it into the honey-comb. 
Miss Apis swallows nectar, as the sweet 
juice of the flowers is called, but when we 
take ho os ney from the honey-comb, i 
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946 is no longer nectar, but 
oii honey. In some way the 
nectar has been changed 
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