Wed, 7 October

SPECIMEN 6B — Comb Fragment, Terminal Cell Open Apis mellifera; wax, resin, honey, two workers (one in transit) Collected mid-afternoon; hive undisturbed elsewhere in frame Five cells above are catalogued complete, sealed before dark, no seam of daylight between them. This one was not finished. Wings still carry the blur of arrival. Antennae meet over a single bead, unlabeled, uncounted, still warm.