Of the Sting and Scraper of a Bee. 123 
head, and with it file wipes the honey off the flowers. 
all which inftruments when the bee hath done working 
are ikilfully fheathed under her head. Fig. 196 repre- 
fents the fcraper of a wild bee. 
When the darts are ftruck deep in the fle/h, if the 
wounded perfon ftarts before the bee can difengage 
them, Ihe leaves her fling behind in the wound5 but 
if he has patience to wait until {he withdraws the fpear* 
into their fcabbard, the wound becomes much lefs pain¬ 
ful. 
If you divide a bee, efpecially an humble bee, a near 
the neck, you will fee the heart beat moft lively, which 
is a white pulfing particle. 
Within the yellow plufh or fur of humble bees you 
may frequently find a fmall whiiifh very nimble ani¬ 
mal, b not much unlike the fhape and form of a cheele 
mite. 
The way to view a bee’s fling with the naicrofcope, 
is to cut off the end of its tail, and then touching it 
with a pin or needle, it will thruft out the fling and*, 
darts, which may bg fnipt off with a pair of feiffars and 
kept for obfervation 3 or if you catch a bee in a leather 
glove, its fling will be left therein, being unable to dif- 
engage its hooks from leather: and when it is quite 
dead, which it will not be till after feveral hours, you 
may quite extract it with its darts and hooks 3 by fqueez- 
ing the tail, pulling out the fling c , and prefling it at the 
bottom you may likewife pufli up the darts; but with¬ 
out fome practice this will be a little difficult. 
The poifonous juice may eafily be found in the bag 
which contains it 3 and by letting the bee Alike its fling 
upon fome hard body, enough of the faid juice may be 
obtained 
a Power’s Micro. Qbf. p. 4. b Ibid p. 20. c Power’s. 
Micro. Obf. p. 4. 
