Show now bees gather honey bees rather honey by the aid of their trunk lower lip or tongue which is used as an instrument for extracting tr the nectar from flowers the tongue of a beo is not as was once thought to be the case a tube through which the juice is sucked bufa is built more after the fashion of a fine broom with this broom the bee brushes or lapa the honey or honey material from the flowers leaves etc and passes it down a groove in the upper surface of the tongue to the mouth proper from that point the juico is conveyed through a minute orifice into the first stomach vulgarly called the honey bag the honey bag is a real chemical laboratory where by some mysterious process which has not yet been explained by science the junices are converted into pure honey when the chemical process of transforming their nectar into viscid honey has been completed the bee dis gorges into one of abo cella mado for the purpose of a receptacle for years tho and the entomologists havo been studying the bees laboratory but its workings are it present among the unexplained mysteries st louis republic |