cell-work

Updated: May 10, 2025

"But it's tucked away among What on earth has come to the little wretches? They seem to have lost the instinct of cell-building." The father held up the frame where the bees had experimented in circular cell-work. It looked like the pitted head, of a decaying toadstool. "Not altogether," the son corrected. "There's one line, at least, of perfectly good cells."

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