Honey and Honey-Dew. 123 
Miss Apis sometimes gathers other sweets 
than flower-juice. I am sorry to say she 
will even steal the honey from. other bees 
if she can get it. 
Sometimes she takes cider, but that 
makes very poor honey indeed. When 
ripe fruits split open, or the wasps bite 
holes in them, Miss Apis may sometimes 
be seen taking her share of the fruit juice. 
It is not often, however, that Miss Apis 
preserves fruit juice; she leaves that for 
us to do. 
She does collect honey-dew, though, and 
sometimes will fill her hive full of honey 
made from it. 
Probably you do not know what honey- 
dew is; it is not everybody that does know, 
but I do, and I am going to tell. 
You all have heard of the aphides, the 
ants’ cows? 
You know they are tiny little insects 
with two horns on their backs. They give 
out a sweet liquid of which the ants are 
