70 NEW OPINIONS ON WAX* 
legs of bees, which was formerly sup¬ 
posed to be wax, and used by them 
in the construction of their combs. It 
has been ascertained, however, that 
wax is produced from honey, by a par** 
ticular elaboration in the stomach of 
the bee, and that instead of being 
discharged by the month under the 
form of a kind of paste, it actually 
comes from the rings of the abdomen. 
This is evident, by withdrawing a 
bee from the cell where it works In 
wax, when this substance, in the 
form of small scales, appears by the 
extention o£ the body 4 *. 
* These scales in abundance, will be fouud on 
tbe floor of a hive a few days after a swarm 
lias been established in it. — Comp, 
