Account of the Working Bee. 79 
The common bee as well as the other two 
fpecies of that valuable infect, confifts of three 
parts, viz. the head, which is attached by 
a natrow. kind “of ‘neck, ‘to’ the~re{t' of the 
body ;—the breaft, or middle part ;—and the 
belly, which is nearly feparated from the breaft 
by an infection or divifion, and connected with 
it by another narrow neck or junction. There 
are two eyes in the head, of an oblong figure, 
black, tranfparent, and immovable. - The 
mouth or jaws, like thofe of fome fpecies of 
fith, open to the right and left, and ferve in- 
{tead of hands, to carry out of the hive what- 
ever encumbers or offends them. In the mouth 
there is a long probofcis, or trunk, with which 
the bees fuck up the fweets from the flowers. 
They have four wings faftened to their mid- 
dle part, by which they are not only en- 
abled to fly with heavy loads, but alfo to 
make thofe well known founds and hummings, 
to each other, that are fuppofed to be their on- 
ly form of fpeech. They have alfo fix legs 
faftened to their middle. The two foremoft 
of thefe are the fhorteft, and with thefe they 
unload themfelves of their treafures. The two 
in the middle are fomewhat longer ; and the 
two laft are the longeft of all. On the outfide 
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