. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 444 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November colors. Thus gradually developed the notion that insects (especially bees) can see at a distance, that they per- ceive color, and that they show color preference. From 1793 down to the present time at least a score and a half of workers have given important evi- dence for or against these notions. Most prominent among those in op- position was Plateau, who published papers between 1895 and 1907. Kel- logg in his book on "American In- sects" (page 581) said that Plateau 3 publications had made it "necess
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 444 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November colors. Thus gradually developed the notion that insects (especially bees) can see at a distance, that they per- ceive color, and that they show color preference. From 1793 down to the present time at least a score and a half of workers have given important evi- dence for or against these notions. Most prominent among those in op- position was Plateau, who published papers between 1895 and 1907. Kel- logg in his book on "American In- sects" (page 581) said that Plateau 3 publications had made it "necessary for more experiments to be devised in support of the theory that floral adap- tation of color is due to color prefer- ences of insect ; Plateau's papers did start the work of gatherin>j evidence in regard to color vision in insects—especially in case of tna honey bee—all over fgain. Most re- . cent in this country is the work ol! J. H. Lovell and C. H. Turner. In Europe the works of Wendt, Forel, Exner, Andrae, Buttel-Reepens, and many others might be mentioned-- and finally, the work of K. Von Frisch and C. Hess. In 1914 Von Frisch presented a paper and made certair. demonstrations before a Zoological Society of Freiburg, where he suc- ceeded in convincing his audience, by demonstrations, that fish distinguish color, and that honeybees can distin- j,jish color. Von Frisch had fed fish, kept in a glass aquarium, for many days on yellow food. Then when he pasted a small bit of yellow paper upon any shade of gray or among other bits of blue, red or green paper, and caused this to approach close against the side of the glass aquari- um, the fish (trained to eat yellow food) darted toward the bit of yel- low paper, but not toward that of anv other color—according to the report. Similarly he showed that other fish, trained to eat red food, seemed to recognize red. His demonstration with bees was as follows: On a table he arranged a series of fifteen giay p
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