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eye-comb. She has to keep the pollen and 
dust combed out of her eye-hairs—or else 
how could she see? And when she is 
combing her iim. evidently 
thinks she-RSiN\) pmegeais may just as 
well, being AAV “Aa very neat 
person, co # Ay} & head also 
Shecleans' off her vel ety thorax with 
the brushes on her middle Wlegs, where 
she also carries a prong for preening her 
wings, and for prying the pollen out of her 
baskets. You can see this prong on the 
inside of her middle leg at the bottom of the 
fourth joint. You see the nt 
pollen is really the flour from 
which she makes her bee- 
bread, or ambrosia, as it is 
sometimes called. As she collects it she 
moistens it with honey so that it can be 
kneaded into a sticky mass, like dough, and 
thus packed securely in her baskets. 
All her legs have brushes, and when 
she is pollen-gathering you can see her 
