peer? f Cleaning her 
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cleaner. The teeth in the round comb on 
one side and the sharp edges of the flap or 
brush on the other clean off every particle 
of dust. 
You can see her almost any time draw- 
ing first one antenna, then the other, 
Y,through the useful and remarkable 
@Z-little cleaners provided for the 
Sxac.x purpose. She will often 
\stop in the middle of her honey- 
gathering to do it, for she seems 
to feel uncomfortable if her antenne are 
not as clean as clean can be. 
The brush at S is used to clean out 
the round comb on the opposite leg. 
As you can imagine, it was a long 
time before people understood the uses 
of Miss Apis’s antenne; but about two 
hundred years ago Mr. Francis Huber, a 
Swiss gentleman who loved bees, found 
out a part of the secret. He discovered 
that the honey-bee smells and feels with 
her antenne. 
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f Sues 
Antenna. 
