=Bee, Honey= (_Apis mellifica_).--Bees form a family of insects
belonging to the same order as the wasps and ants. Many kinds of bees
are social, that is to say, they live in communities. As in the case of
ants, various sets of members have come to discharge special functions,
and the result of this division of labor has been difference of form.
[Illustration: Her Majesty of the Hive--The worker bees attending on the
queen, all with their faces turned toward her. The queen is the large
bee in the center. No “swarm” is possible without the commanding
presence of an accompanying queen.]
[Illustration: As the Honey Bee visits flower after flower she collects
pollen as well as nectar. The pollen is largely picked up by the hairy
coat, then brushed off by the feet and pressed into the “pollen basket”
on the thigh of the hind leg.]