. The honey-makers. Bees. 46 The Honey-Makers extremities of tlie antenna, which are supposed to be highly specialized feeling-organs. On the lower, outer part of the last six or seven joints, and more abundant towards the end of the antenna, are microscopic circular depressions which are believed to be organs of hearing, ear- openings, so to speak. Besides the special organs already no- ticed, there are what Cheshire calls the " smell ; These are oval in form, larger and far more numerous than the ear-holes, and are found between the touch hairs on the front of the last eigh
. The honey-makers. Bees. 46 The Honey-Makers extremities of tlie antenna, which are supposed to be highly specialized feeling-organs. On the lower, outer part of the last six or seven joints, and more abundant towards the end of the antenna, are microscopic circular depressions which are believed to be organs of hearing, ear- openings, so to speak. Besides the special organs already no- ticed, there are what Cheshire calls the " smell ; These are oval in form, larger and far more numerous than the ear-holes, and are found between the touch hairs on the front of the last eight joints of the antennae. There is the amazing number of 2400 of these oval depressions on each antenna, which well accounts for the very acute sense of smell which bees undoubtedly possess. These litde antennre are only about ^ of an inch long, and their lower specialized portion is only ^ of an inch long in the worker bee, and j^o of an inch in diameter, yet this lower part is possessed of thousands of highly specialized sense-organs. That bees hear has been a matter of faith from the time of Aristotle, and, after having been denied in very scientific and learned terms in recent times, is now again an accepted belief. They do hear. Or at least they possess a sense equivalent to what in us is hearing. They do not notice all sounds, but then, neither does anyone else, and Sir John Lubbock's tuning-forks, whistles, and violins that failed to elicit any response from his bees may, as Cheshire has so well pointed out, be due to the fact that bees are not interested in the sounds of these instruments. Cheshire says, — "Should some alien being watch humanity during 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 Morley, Margaret Warner, 1858-1923. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and company
Size: 1652px × 1512px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherch, booksubjectbees
