The Bees, having discovered the snail, surrounded it, and formed a border of propolis round the verge of its shell, and fastened it so securely to the glass that it became immovable.
If it be impossible for them to expel or dismember it, they will proceed methodically and hermetically to enclose it in a veritable sepulchre of propolis and wax, which will tower fantastically above the ordinary monuments of the city.
A thin wall of what appeared to be propolis was attached from the upper edge of the doorway, extending along its centre, and closing all up but a space of about three quarters of an inch at each end.
By leaving it on, travel stained and propolisspotted sections will result.
Every section must be scraped around the edges and all propolis removed.
The bees having discovered the snail, surrounded it and formed a border of propolis round the verge of its shell, and fastened it so securely to the glass that it became immovable.
Propolis is sometimes put to a very curious use by the bees.
All such places will be filled by the bees with propolis or bee-glue; a substance, which is always soft in the summer heat of the hive, and which forms a most congenial place of deposit for the eggs of the moth.
A mixture of wax and propolis is used by the bees to strengthen the attachments of the combs to the top and sides of the hive, and serves most admirably for this purpose, as it is much more adhesive than wax alone.
The smell of the propolis is often precisely similar to that of the resin from the poplar, and chemical analysis proves the identity of the two substances.
I have noticed at this season, when old pieces of boards that had been used for hives, were left in the sun, that this old propolis would become soft in the middle of the day.
It also takes a waxlike substance called propolis from buds of various trees, which it packs with the pollen in the baskets.
This is the material from which the comb is made, while the propolis is employed as a cement to attach the cells together, and for various minor purposes.
Much propolis gathered from the large composite heads of the flower and stems and leaves of the plant.
Waysides and prairies; of no importance; bees gather propolis from resinous heads sometimes.
Sometimes the bees content themselves with bordering the sides of the upper cells with propolis alone, without altering their form or giving them greater thickness.
The propolis is soft, red, will pull out in a thread, is aromatic, and imparts a gold colour to white polished metals.
Why not, when wax and propolis are scarce, employ mud, which they might see the martin avail herself of so successfully?
But upon subjecting a lump of propolis to the boiling process by which wax is purified, it turns out simple wax of nearly its former weight; and it is accordingly presumed to be only wax in a much more crude stage of elaboration.
They use the propolis for another purpose still, which deserves to be mentioned.
The propolisis employed in Italy for making blisters.
AL] Kirby and Spence observed bees very busy in collecting propolis from the tacamahaca-tree (Populus balsamifera).
Illustration: Structure of the legs of the Bee, for carrying propolisand pollen, magnified.
The propolis employed on this occasion had been deposited in a mass over a cleft of the hive, and had hardened in drying, which probably rendered it more suitable for the purpose.
We actually saw two or three arrive, and carry the propolis from off the limbs of each with their teeth.
And Fessa took the last of the propolis from her very roughly.
After sections are removed the wood should be scraped free of propolis (bee glue) and then packed in shipping cases (fig.
Care should be exercised not to loosen this propolis with a jar.
In cool weather the propolis (bee glue) may be brittle.
Their worst characteristic is that they gather great quantities of propolis and build burr and brace combs very freely.
Loosen the cover which you will find to be glued tight with propolis by the bees.
I have observed the bees collecting propolis in the spring from the buds of Populus balsamifera.
According to Huber, who made this observation, the propolis is applied also to the insides of the cells.
If the encasing of an animal (such as a mouse) with propolis is not sufficient to prevent its putrefaction, the bees gnaw away all the putrescible parts of the carcass and carry them out of the hive, leaving only the skeleton behind.
The object of the propolis here seems to be that of giving strength to the cells.
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