| Show A bee ee six reet feet frona from tip to tip you like to see a honey bee as large or larger than the average man there is j just ast such a creature in the specimen room of the university of pennsylvania at philadelphia it is the largest insect of its class ever seen in this or ouy ny other country its wings are as broad as those of an eagle and its honey bag of twenty pounds capacity its legs are also largo large and well formed reminding one of the crooked supporters ofa of a piano stool of ye olden times to te proboscis which is attached to a head the bigness of a candy bucket is over a foot in length and as big around as aa a broom handle I 1 know that you are woud wondering erin where he ever found clover clorer heads large enough to work on and who provided a halt half a million of similar sized specimens with a hive in which to store their tons of honey but there is no use exciting your curiosity further he never gathered honey never improved each shining hour in fact he never had hours to im improve he is made of papier mache and is so constructed that every part of his body can be disarticulated for study this the giant of the hon honey bees was the work of an ingenious french artificer who spends his time making gigantic giganti lc worms gnats byes bees flies etc for t hiie tie benefit of students stu denta who are studying entomology worm wad and kindred sciences st louis republic |
