. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. 4 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HCX2Y-DEE. '' The worker spends much of her time in the open air. Ac- curate and powerful vision are essentials to the proper prosecu- tion of her labors, and here I found the compound eye possess- ing about 6,300 facets. In the mother of this worker I expected to find a less number, for queens know little of daylight. After wedding they are out of doors but once, or at most twice, in a year.* This example verified my forecast, by showing 4,920 facets on each side of the head. A son of this mother, much a staj'-at-home also, was
. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. 4 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HCX2Y-DEE. '' The worker spends much of her time in the open air. Ac- curate and powerful vision are essentials to the proper prosecu- tion of her labors, and here I found the compound eye possess- ing about 6,300 facets. In the mother of this worker I expected to find a less number, for queens know little of daylight. After wedding they are out of doors but once, or at most twice, in a year.* This example verified my forecast, by showing 4,920 facets on each side of the head. A son of this mother, much a staj'-at-home also, was next taken. His facets were irregular. Pig. 1. THE COMPOSITE EYE OF A WORKER-BEE MAGNIFIED. (Copied from the Atlante di Apicoltura, microscopic studies of Count Gaetano BarbS, of Milan.) in size, those at the lower part of the eye being much less than those near the top; but they reached the immense number of 13,090 on each side of the head. Why should the visual ap- paratus of the drone be so extraordinarily developed beyond that of the worker, whose need of the eye seems at first to be much more pressing than his?" * When going out with a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, Charles, 1817-1902; Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. : Dadant
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