NEW OPINIONS' ON WAX* 
each of these occasions that they were 
supplied with honey they produced 
new combs, which puts it beyond dis¬ 
pute, that this substance effected the 
secretion of wax in their bodies with* 
out the aiid of pollen* As the reverse 
of the precending experiment would 
prove whether the pollen itself had 
the same property, instead of supply¬ 
ing a swarm with honey, they were 
now provided with nothing but fruit 
and farina* The bees were kept eight 
days in captivity with a comb having 
farina alone in the cells: yet they 
neither made wax, nor were scales 
seen under their rings* 
Workers alone, have the property 
