. The bee people. Bees. 26 The Bee People. you a portion of the eye considerably magnified. Whoever goes as far as Miss Apis does in search of flowers needs good eyes that can see a long distance. She has been known to fly four or five miles in search of flowers; just think of going, back and forth from hive tog flowers and flowers to hive^ any such distance as that As a rule, however, Miss Apis goes only a little way, half a mile or so, but even for this she needs good, far-seeing eyes. And she has them, — for her compound eyes are very far-sighted. This is probably the reason she needs the t
. The bee people. Bees. 26 The Bee People. you a portion of the eye considerably magnified. Whoever goes as far as Miss Apis does in search of flowers needs good eyes that can see a long distance. She has been known to fly four or five miles in search of flowers; just think of going, back and forth from hive tog flowers and flowers to hive^ any such distance as that As a rule, however, Miss Apis goes only a little way, half a mile or so, but even for this she needs good, far-seeing eyes. And she has them, — for her compound eyes are very far-sighted. This is probably the reason she needs the three small eyes, which are near- sighted and enable her to see things close at hand. Although she possesses such a prodigious number of eyes, Miss Apis has no eyelids. No, indeed! she has eye-hairs instead, that point outward and do not prevent her see-. 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- [from old catalog]. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and company
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