The Honey-Bee. 21 



year store up honey which nobody can 

 reach. Stories are told of old houses whose 

 hollow walls, when they were pulled down, 

 were found to be filled with honey-combs. 

 It is not easy to get honey that is stored 

 in the walls of houses, as the bees fight 

 bravely for their property. 



Honey-bees are small people,. being only 

 about twice as large as common house-flies. 



Some are brown all over, and some that 

 were brought here from Italy have tan-col- 

 ored abdomens, but all of them, the brown 

 bees, the Italian bees, and the other kinds of 

 hive bees in this country, are called by the 

 same name. Apis Mellifica. Apis is the 

 Latin word for bee, and mellifica is the 

 Latin word for honey-making; and they 

 have this pretty name because they make 

 and store up quantities of good honey, 

 which we like to eat. 



The Bee People are sun-lovers, and all 

 summer long on bright days you may see 

 them hurrying about. But in the winter- 



