Another interesting plant is the violet, the nectar of which is stored at the end of the long spur, which you will have noticed. The pollen bags fit closely round the stigma, and so when pollen drops from them it does not fall out of the flower, for its passage is blocked by the tight-fitting pollen bags. When the bee comes, she has to push her tongue right up the spur, and in doing this she forces it past the pollen bags. This causes the pollen to fall out on to her head, and so it is carried to the next flower. CHAPTER XLV CONCLUSION Although very much more could be written on this interesting subject, yet there is a limit to all things, and we come now to the end of this little book. If you did not know or care much about bees when you began Chapter I., I hope that what you have read will help you to understand something about these wonderful insects. The study of parts of their bodies, or Anatomy, as it is called, teaches us a great deal, and helps us to understand all the more clearly how they perform the duties of the hive, and how they collect their food. Although the wonders of the hive, the combs, their building and design, the different workers and their duties, are marvellous, yet the ways of the bees themselves are far more wonderful, and we cannot fully understand them. It is not known at the present time whether the bees are able to think and reason, or whether they simply do these things by instinct. This alone is a great subject, and one on which there have been endless discussions among the cleverest scientists in the world, and yet we get no nearer the truth. If you are not able to study the habits of the bees in the hive, there is nothing to prevent you from watching them when they are at work in the garden or hedgerow. It is always very pleasant to hear the happy song of the foragers on a summer afternoon as they flit from flower to flower on their task.