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BEHAVIOR OF HOXEY BEE IX POLLEN COLLECTING. 
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corbiculse of the two legs receive loads of pollen in a manner similar 
to that above described. To accomplish this successfully the operator 
must keep the combs of the plantse well supplied with moistened 
pollen. If the foot of first one leg and then the other is grasped 
with forceps and so guided that the pollen combs of one leg rasp over 
the pectert spines of the other, the pollen from the combs will be 
transferred to the corbicula?. To continue the loading process in a 
proper manner, it is also nec- 
essary to flex the plant a of 
each leg just after the pollen 
combs of the opposite leg 
have deposited pollen behind 
the pecten. By this action 
the auricle is raised, com- 
pressing the pollen which 
the pecten has secured, and 
forcing some upward into 
the corbicula. Bees' legs 
which have been loaded in 
this artificial manner show 
pollen masses in their cor- 
biculse which are entirely 
similar in appearance to 
those formed by the labors 
of the living bee. More- 
over, by the above method 
of manipulation the pollen 
appears first at the bottom 
of the basket, along its lower 
margin, gradually extends 
upward along the floor of 
the chamber, comes in con- 
tact with the overhanging 
hairs, and is shaped by them 
in a natural manner. All 
attempts to load the baskets 
bv other movements, such as 
Fig. 9. — Inner surface of the right hind leg of a 
worker bee which bears a complete load of 
pollen, a, Scratches in the pollen mass caused 
by the pressure of the long projecting hairs 
of the basket upon the pollen mass as it has 
been pushed up from below ; 1), groove in the 
pollen mass made by the strokes of the auricle 
as the mass projects outward and backward 
from the basket. (Original.) 
crossing the hind legs and 
scraping the plantar combs over the lateral edges of the baskets, 
give results which are entirelv different from those achieved by the 
living bee. 
POLLEN MOISTENING. 
Many descriptions have been written by others of the method by 
which pollen is gathered and moistened. Some of these are indefi- 
nite, some are incorrect, while others are. in part, at least, similar 
