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biculum or pollen basket, represented by the longest joints of the legs, 
A, B, and ©, fig. 7. Into this the pollen falls, and with the middle 
pair of legs is tamped down for transportation to the hive. Having 
arrived there, the bee thrusts its hind legs into a cell located as near to 
the brood nest as may be, and loosening the. pellets lets them fall into 
the bottom of the cell. The tibial spur (fig. 7, e) on each middle leg is, 
as Professor Cheshire has pointed out, probably of use in prying the 
pellets out. The latter are simply dropped into cells and left for some 
other bee to pack down 
by kneading or pressing 
with its mandibles. Va- 
rious colors—yellow, 
brown, red, slate, ete., 
according to the kinds 
of flowers from which 
gathered—frequently 
show in layers in the 
same cell. Often when 
partly filled with pollen 
the cell is then filled up 
with honey and sealed 
moreor less hermetically 
with wax. The bees 
store the pollen, for con- 
venience in feeding, 
above and at the sides 
of the brood and as near 
to it as possible, the 
comb on each side of the 
brood nest being gener- 
ally well stored with it. 
NECTAR AND HONEY. 
The liquid secreted in 
the nectaries of flowers 
is usually quite thin, 
Fic. 8.—Head and tongue of Apis mellifica worker (magni: containing, when just 
fied twelve times). a, Antenna, or feeler; m, mandibula, or oathered. a large per- 
outer jaw; g, gum flap, or epipharynx; map, maxillary palpus; © ! ‘ 
pg, paraglossa; max, maxilla, or inner jaw; lp, labial palpus, centage of water. Bees 
l, ligula, or tongue: 6, bouton, or spoon of the same. (Reduced suck or lap it up from 
trom Cheshire.) 
| such flowers as they can 
reach with their flexible, sucking tongue, 0.25 to 0.28 inch long. (Fig. 
8,1.) This nectar is taken into the honey sac (Plate II, h. s.) located in 
the abdomen, for transportation to the hive. It is possible that part of 
the water is eliminated by the gatherers before they reach thehive. A 
Russian bee keeper, M. Nassanoff, while dissecting a worker, discovered 
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