MISS APIS AND HER SISTERS. 
ADEN with pollen and nectar, Miss 
Apis starts homeward. 
People used to think she flew in a 
straight line to the hive, and so they called 
the shortest distance from one place to 
another a “bee line.” 
But she does not fly in a straight line, 
— far from it. 
Whoever has ‘‘made a bee line for 
home” — that is, a frue bee line — must 
have followed a very indirect course indeed. 
When Miss Apis has filled her honey- 
sac, and is ready to go home, she first 
mounts up into the air, not straight up, 
but round and round in a spiral, and 
when high enough she starts toward 
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