Miss Apis and Her Sisters. 87 
alike as one pea is like another. They all 
have twelve thousand six hundred small 
eyes and three large ones, a folding tongue, 
a honey-sac, wings that lock together, 
extraordinary legs, and several other useful 
and curious things. 
Having watched Miss Apis going from 
flower to flower in the sunshine, you may 
think that this pleasant duty is all there 
is in her life. But oh, how mistaken you 
are | 
Wait until you see her at home! There 
is as much work to be done in her house 
as in anybody’s, and she does it too. She 
works very hard, and, in fact, with her 
sisters, does all the work. Nobody else 
in the family does any, and so she is called 
the worker bee. 
For you must know that she and her 
thousands of sisters, who are as like her 
as one pea is like another, are not the 
only members of the family. 
