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  • Some of them visit the flowers, take up the nectar into the honey-sac, located in their abdomens, and carry it to the hive.

    Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902

  • The bandit greedily takes in its mouth the extended and sugared tongue of the dead insect; then once more it presses the neck and the thorax, and once more applies the pressure of its abdomen to the honey-sac of the bee.

    Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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