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INDUSTKY OF BEES AND WASPS. 



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therefore tried the following. If you bring a bee to 

 some honey, she feeds quietly, goes back to the hive, 

 stores away her honey, and returns with or without 

 companions for another supply. Each visit occupies 

 about six minutes, so that there are about ten in an 

 hour, and about a hundred in a day. I may add that in 

 this respect the habits of wasps are very similar, and that 

 they appear to be quite as industrious as bees. Perhaps 

 I may give the record of a morning's work of one of 

 my wasps. 1 She came to the honey at a few minutes 

 after 4 in the morning, and to show how regularly 

 she worked I will give her record from 6.30 till 12. 



1 In her case the intervals were rather longer than usual. 



