90 THE BUILDING OF BEES. 
201. If they remain quietly clustered together, when 
an gorged with honey, or any 
liquid sweet, the wax is se- 
creted in the shape of deli- 
cate scales in four small 
pouches, on each side of the 
abdomen of worker-bees. 
eS 
Fig. 35. 
SECRETION OF WAX SCALES. “These scales, of an irreg- 
(Magnified. ) ular pentagonal shape, aré so 
(From the ‘‘I/ustrierte Bienenzeitung.’’) thin and light, that one hun- 
dred of them hardly weigh as much as a kernel of wheat.’”’—(Du- 
bini, ‘* L’Ape.”’) 
202. In the young bees, which are endowed with a great 
appetite, they form, probably, without their knowledge, dur- 
ing the honey season; and if there is no place to use them, 
they are gathered in small knots here and there. This 
Fig. 36. 
THE WAX-PRODUCING ORGAN OF THE WORKER-BEE, 
(Magnified. From Girard.) 
only happens when the combs are entirely filled and sealed. 
It has been noticed, most especially, in hives in which a 
comb had been broken down by heat. (333.) In such 
cases, many of the bees gorge themselves with the wasting 
honey, and cluster on the outside, until the heat has sub- 
sided, and the running honey has been gathered up. 
