GENERAL STATEMENT OF PROCESS. 
11 
-Femur 
supply of pollen which lodges upon the body of the bee will thus 
differ considerably in amount, depending upon the type of flower 
from which the bee is collecting, and the same is true regarding the 
location upon the body of a bee of pollen grains which are available 
for storage in the baskets. 
Moreover, the movements 
concerned in the collection 
of the pollen from the va- 
rious body parts of the 
bee upon which it lodges 
will differ somewhat in 
the two cases, since a 
widely scattered supply 
requires for its collection 
additional movements, 
somewhat similar in na- 
ture to those which the 
bee employs in cleaning 
the hairs which cover its 
body. 
-Jlnleripr 
edge 
Posterior 
edge- 
"Stem* 
GENERAL STATEMENT 
OF THE POLLEN-COL- 
LECTING PROCESS. 
A very complete knowl- 
edge of the pollen-gather- 
ing behavior of the worker 
honey bee may be obtained 
by a study of the actions 
of bees which are work- 
ing upon a plant which 
yields pollen in abun- 
dance. Sweet corn is an 
ideal plant for this pur- 
pose, and it will be used 
as a basis for the descrip- 
tion which follows. 
In attempting to out- 
line the method by which 
pollen is manipulated the 
writer wishes it to be understood that he is recounting that which 
he has seen and that the description is not necessarily complete, 
although he is of the opinion that it is very nearly so. The move- 
ments of the legs and of the mouthparts are so rapid and so many 
Fig. 
-Inner surface of the left hind leg 
worker bee. (Original.) 
of a 
