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larger stomach. The nurse-bees are indeed fur- 
nished with wax-pockets, but they secrete wax 
only in trifling quantities, while in the queen bee 
and the drones no pouches are to be found. 
Worker Bee magnified — showing position of the scales of wax . 
There is, however, another article used by the 
bees in their architecture : this substance, being 
chiefly used in the projecting portions and out- 
works of their waxen structures, is called propo- 
lis , derived from two Greek words signifying 
“ before the city.” It consists of a brown resin, 
collected from various trees which produce a 
similar gum. The bee carries it home in her 
little baskets, having first worked it over with 
