Honey- Comb. 119 
Miss Apis’s glue is a perfect nuisance 
to the bee-keeper. She seems to think 
she must daub everything over with it, 
whether necessary or not, and she fastens 
the frames so tightly, if the bee-keeper is 
not on the watch, that it is hard work to 
get them out of the hive. 
The only way is to watch and take out 
the frames before she has time to glue them 
fast. 
You wonder where she gets her glue? 
Why, she just finds it. She sometimes 
scrapes it off from the sticky buds of the 
poplar or cherry tree, or from other plants. 
Huber watched his bees scrape bee-glue 
from wild poplar buds. Miss Apis brings 
the glue home in her pollen baskets. It 
is brown and shiny like resin, and spoils 
the looks of whatever it touches. But 
Miss Apis does not seem to care much 
for mere looks. 
