54 The Bee People. 



If you look at her body and at the upper 

 part of all her six legs, you will find them 

 covered with long hairs. If you look at 

 the hairs under a magnifying glass you will 

 fmd them branched, as you see in the 

 picture. 



When Miss Apis wants pollen she scrapes 

 it from the anther cells with her claws, and 

 'gathers it together with her legs. 

 Ixj^Very often her whole body becomes 

 dusted with it, and wherever the 

 pollen grains touch the branched 

 hairs they cling fast to them. 

 Miss Apis wriggles about 

 in the flowers, scraping out the 

 pollen with her feet, and collecting 

 it on her branched hairs. Then she 

 carefully brushes it together, and by 

 means of her legs transfers it to her pollen 

 baskets. 



For you must know she has a num- 

 ber of brushes on her legs to help her 

 to gather up the pollen. 



