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THE BUGOLOGIST 
opposite side three can rest on the bottom of one on this 
side. Thus the bottom of one form parts of the bottoms 
of three other cells on the other side. Everything so 
neat and so strong it could not be any stronger. 
What do you suppose these cells are made of? Well, 
you’ll say wax but where do the bees get the wax? They 
make it of the nectar they gathered in the fields. They 
sweat it out ot their bodies. Now, that seems strange but 
it is true. For that reason we give them foundation upon 
which to build new cells so that the bodies will not be 
so exhausted and be abler for gathering honey. 
Some men who have studied carefully the habits and 
inodes of living of the honey-bees tell us that some of 
them are honey-gatherers and some of them wax-pro¬ 
ducers and still others are nurses waiting upon the sick. 
Did you ever- dream of such things among insects? 
When the cells are completed the honey is put in 
them and they are sealed in the neat way that you see 
them here or those that you saw in the store. 
The pollen put in separate little cells and is kept 
for food. 
One thing more about the tame bee and then we will 
again go out into the field and visit the wild brethren. 
Each colony, as the collection of bees in one hive is 
called, has a kind of leader called the queen. When the 
