HOW BEES EMBALM.
Bees can embalm as well as any undertaker. All intruders on their hives are slain and embalmed carefully. If a worm or a roach, or any insect blunders into a hive, the bees fall upon hi in and slay him with their slings. To get the corpse out would be a difficulty ; therefore, embalming it, they let it remain. The embalming process of the bees is simple. It consists in covering the corpse with a hermetic coat of pure wax. Within their airtight en'vclope the body remains fresh. It cannot in any way contaminate the hive.
When a snail blunders in among the bees they cannot kill him, on account, of the protection of his shell. So liny embalm him alive. They cover him, shell and all, with snowy wax. .lie is a prisoner whom only death releases.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 28, 5 April 1907, Page 2
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141HOW BEES EMBALM. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 28, 5 April 1907, Page 2
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