Elementary Science by Grades Book Four: A Nature Study and Science Reader (1929)
Persing, Ellis C., Wildman, Edward E. · D. Appleton and Company · leaf 261
FRUIT TREES 243 honey from the nectar. As a bee creeps into a flower for it, her hairy body brushes against the little pollen boxes, and some of this magic dust sticks to it. When she goes to the next flower for nectar, some of this pollen dust gets … POLLEN FROM THE HAIRY BODY OF THE BEE IS RUBBED OFF ON THE PISTIL OF A BLOSSOM. rubbed oft on the end of the pistil of that flower. This is shown in the picture. Soon her little nectar sac is full and she is ready to fly back home to the hive. Before she goes, she combs the rest of the pollen from…
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