Honey- Comb. 119 



Miss Apis's glue is a perfect nuisance 

 to the bee-keeper. She seems to think 

 she must daub everything over with it, 

 whether necessary or not, and she fastens 

 the frames so tightly, if the bee-keeper is 

 not on the watch, that it is hard work to 

 get them out of the hive. 



The only way is to watch and take out 

 the frames before she has time to glue them 

 fast. 



You wonder where she gets her glue? 

 Why, she just finds it. She sometimes 

 scrapes it off from the sticky buds of the 

 poplar or cherry tree, or from other plants. 

 Huber watched his bees scrape bee-glue 

 from wild poplar buds. Miss Apis brings 

 the glue home in her pollen baskets. It 

 is brown and shiny, like resin, and spoils 

 the looks of whatever it touches. But 

 Miss Apis does not seem to care much 

 for mere looks. 



