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Excerpt from Apiary Experiments
Honey bees collect liquid sweets from all available sources, chie?y in the form of nectar from ?owers, and when the product has been elaborated in the honey-stomach and afterwards stored in comb, we call it honey.
The material from which the comb 18 built is not collected as wax, but 18 formed within the body and secreted In the form of thin scales between the abdominal segments on the under side.
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