512 MISCEtLANEOUS WONDERS OF NATURE. .j (|ll' 
first kill the insect with their stings, and then iH| 
with tlieir teeth. But it sometime.s happens 
cree|)s into the hive ; in which case it is no sooner fi)' 
than it is attacked on all sides, and stung to 
bees being unable to carry out a burthen of such 
to prevent so large a body "from ditfusing a disti^cEab^j^ 
through the hive, instantly cover every part of h 
through which not any etfluvia can e, scape. 
with a shell finds an entrance, the bees have Ic^® lif’^ 
since it naturally retires within its shell, on receiving |j, rift 
wound from a sting. In this case, the bees, instea<l I’ 
it all over, satisfy themselves with passing the | it*' 
the margin of the shell, which renders the a"it 
moveably fixed. j,,.. , 
Bees being prevented by the weather, not oHu 
the winter, but on many summer days, from 
in quest of provisions, collect and amass, in Eclj* ,, 
for that puipose, large quantities of honey, !j,i 
extract, by means of their proboscis or trunk, ^ k 
nectariterous glands of flowers. After collectino jljd^ 
small drops, the animal, wiUi its proboscis, conVWj^;^ f 
to its mouth, and swallows them. From the gE 
honey passes into the first stomach, which 
sw'ollen in proportion to the quantity of honey 
When filled, the bee returns to the hive, and 
a cell the honey it has collected. It occasionally 
however, that it is accosted on its way by a ta ' 
panion. How the latter communicates its nece*.^ 
other, remains to be discovered ; but the ‘ (jiS y, 
that when two bees, thus circumstanced, 
which is laden e.xtends its trunk, opens 
like ruminatins animals, forces up the 
its 
in-' 
cavity. The hungry bee knows how to take 
this ho.spitable invitation, and, with the point 
sucks the honey from the other's mouth. In th® * 
the loaded bee, on reaching the hive, ofters 
those who are at work, as if to save them the i 
quitting their labour to proceed in quest of 
weather, the bees feed on the honey laid up 'f 
Kp 
but never touch these reservoirs when their couip (i‘ ^ 
enabled to supply them w'ith fre,sh honfey 
But th* mouths of those cells which are destined 
