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The Bee People. 



the pollen grains cannot. They are kept 

 back in the stomach by this clever little 

 strainer, and only pure nectar or honey can 

 get back into the honey-sac. 



When Miss Apis gets to the hive, she 

 makes the muscles of her honey-sac squeeze 

 the honey into her mouth, and she then puts 

 it into the honey-comb. 



Miss Apis swallows nectar, as the sweet 

 juice of the flowers is called, but when we 

 takeho^^ney from the honey-comb, it 

 has jwMfe un^iiUfe, dergone a change and 

 is no longer nectar, but 

 In some way the 

 nectar has been changed 



into 



