Honey and Honep-Dew. 123 



Miss Apis sometimes gathers other sweets 

 than flower-juice. I am sorry to say she 

 will even steal the honey from other bees 

 if she can get it. 



Sometimes she takes cider, but that 

 makes very poor honey indeed. When 

 ripe fruits split open, or the wasps bite 

 holes in them, Miss Apis may sometimes 

 be seen taking her share of the fruit juice. 



It is not often, however, that Miss Apis 

 preserves fruit juice ; she leaves that for 

 us to do. 



She does collect honey-dew, though, and 

 sometimes will fill her hive full of honey 

 made from it. 



Probably you do not know what honey- 

 dew is ; it is not everybody that does know, 

 but I do, and I am going to tell. 



You all have heard of the aphides, the 

 ants' cows? 



You know they are tiny little insects 

 with two horns on their backs. They give 

 out a sweet liquid of which the ants are 



