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honey bag. When the bee returns to the hive, 
she regurgitates it in the form of pure honey, 
into one of the cells prepared. When the stomach 
of a bee is filled with nectar, she next, by means 
of the feathered hairs on her body, gathers the 
pollen from which the bee-bread is made, and 
which we may call the ambrosia. When her 
body is covered with this dust, she wipes it off 
with the brushes of her legs, not to disperse it, 
but to knead it into two small pellets, which she 
carries in the baskets formed by the hairs cross- 
ing each other, on her hind legs. 
Many authors assert that the bee never visits 
more than one species of flower in each journey 
from the hive ; and this appears most probable 
and reasonable ; for the grains of pollen would 
not> most likely, adhere together if not of the 
same kind ; and the pollen which the bee would 
carry into the flower might make the seed of a 
different kind, and there would be no perfect 
flower in time. 
The bee, on her arrival at the hive, either eats 
the pellets of farina, or calls others to her assist- 
ance. They store up the superfluous par* in 
empty cells. 
The propolis is collected from the buds of 
trees, particularly from the poplar. Huber 
