THE BEE NA TJON. 
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these are queen cells. There may be others of irre- 
gular shape and size, sometimes five and seven-sided 
(l, Fig. i) ; these are called transition cells, and are 
constructed for the purpose of passing gradually from 
worker to drone cells, or vice versa. Then we shall 
also find along the top (m. Fig. i) and sides, where the 
comb is fixed to the wood, cells having four and 
sometimes five sides ; these are called by German 
bee-keepers attachment cells {Heftzelleti). 
Bees engaged in different occupations will be 
found on these combs ; some fresh from the fields 
discharging their loads of pollen and honey, others 
engaged in feeding the young, whilst others will be 
capping over cells or comb-building. If we watch 
a bee just from the fields, we shall probably see her 
remove the pollen (which is the fertilising dust 
collected from flowers) from her legs, and place it in 
one of the smaller-sized cells which usually serve for 
this purpose ; then putting her head in she presses it 
down firmly. She then goes to another cell and dis- 
charges into it from her honey stomach the liquid she 
has collected, but not before the nectar which was 
gathered from the flowers has been converted into 
honey by a secretion derived from the salivary 
glands. Both honey and pollen are used as food 
by the bee, and form the primary substance from 
which the brood food is derived. Water is also 
used, but is not stored, and the bees only collect 
it as required. 
Of the three kinds of bees, the queen (Fig. 2), or 
as she is more correctly called by the Germans, the 
