Miss Apis's Legs. 55 



These brushes are tufts or rows of stiff 

 hairs that are not branched. 



If we look on the under side of her hind 

 leg, the same that bears the pollen basket 

 on the fourth joint of its upper side, we 

 shall see two kinds 

 of brushes or combs 

 for gathering the pol- 

 len together, the stiff 



hairs on the edge of the fourth joint, and 

 the sharp teeth that cover the fifth joint- 

 Each hind leg is supplied with these use- 

 ful brushes, and one hind leg scrapes the 

 pollen into the basket of the other. 



The first chance you get you must watch 

 Miss Apis gathering pollen. Sometimes 

 she looks as if she were running about over 

 a head of flowers to find something she 

 had lost, — now this way and now that she 

 goes in a great hurry, then turns around 

 and afound. But she has not lost anything, 

 and she has not gone crazy ; she is merely 

 collecting pollen as fast as she can, and if 



