Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 596
l iscollected in espe-cially large quan-tities in midsum-mer, perhaps more abundantly in August thanin July, more than seems to us necessary. The use of pro-polis or bee-glueis to cement thecombs to their sup-ports, to fill uprough places in-side the hive, toseal up cracks,which at timeshave… … writer on honey-bees, tells us that there isa story of a venturesome mouse that, enteringa hive for honey, was stung to death. Havingslain their foe, the bees found the corpse toolarge to move, and to protect themselves fromthe effects of its decomposition encased it in atomb of propolis.
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