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it is the Faeces, Husks, or Shells of the Farina or crude 
Wax, after Digeftion, difeharg’d by the Anus. 
As ro the fhfl, I have frequently follow’d a Bee 
loading the Farina, Bee Bread, or crude Wax, upon 
its Legs, through a Part of a great Field in Flower ; 
and upon whatfoever F.ower 1 faw it tirft alight and 
gather the Farina, it continued gathering from that 
kind of Flower j and has pafs’d over many o her 
Species of Flowers, tho’ very numerous in the Field, 
without alighting upon or loading from them tho’ 
the Flower it chofc was much (career in the Field 
than the others : So that if it began to load from a 
Daify, it continued loading from them, neglecting 
Clover, Honeyluckles, Violets, &c . ; and if it began 
with any of the others, it continued loading from 
the fame Kind, pa fling over the Daify. So in a Gar- 
den upon my Wall-Trees, I have feen it load from 
a Peach, and pafs over Apricots, Plums, Cherries, 
&c. yet made no Diftindtion betwixt a Peach and 
an Almond 
Now M. Reaumur , in his Memoir upon the Bee’s 
making Honey, mentions Arijlotle s Observation of 
the Bee’s loading or gathering from one Species of 
Flower without changing ; not quitting a Violet to 
gather from a Cowflip; which he fays is not juflly 
founded ; for he has obferved frequently a Bee on a 
large Border gathering from Flowers of different 
Species. If M. Reaumur only means, that, when 
the Bee gathers Honey, it takes it indifferently from 
any Flower, I can fay nothing againft it j but, if he 
intends it to mean the Bee’s loading the Farina 
upon its Legs, then my Obfcrvation diredlly contra- 
dicts it 
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