. Animal physiology. Physiology, Comparative. 394 ANTENNA OF INSECTS, Cricket above 100), and are very flexible. This flexibility enables theni to be turned towards any object under examina- tion by the Insect; and when the animal is walking, we see them constantly being applied to the surfaces of the bodies which it approaches, in a manner which leaves little doubt that they are used as organs of touch. It is no objection to this view, to say that, as their surfaces are hard, no delicate sensations can be received through them; for the slightest. Fig. 199.—Variously-formed Antennje of Insects
. Animal physiology. Physiology, Comparative. 394 ANTENNA OF INSECTS, Cricket above 100), and are very flexible. This flexibility enables theni to be turned towards any object under examina- tion by the Insect; and when the animal is walking, we see them constantly being applied to the surfaces of the bodies which it approaches, in a manner which leaves little doubt that they are used as organs of touch. It is no objection to this view, to say that, as their surfaces are hard, no delicate sensations can be received through them; for the slightest. Fig. 199.—Variously-formed Antennje of Insects. contact of their firmest points with a hard substance, may produce a sense of resistance which will afibrd to the animal the information which it requires. The stick used by the bhncl man in feeling his way, serves a very similar purpose. —It appears to be by sensations received through their antennae, that Bees and other Insects which naturally work in the dark, are enabled to carry-on their labours without confusion or inaccuracy; and to be by the same means, that they communicate with each other. When the antenna are cut off, the Bee at once ceases to work, and seems unable to direct its movements in any other way than towards the light. 'WHien any important event has happened in a community, such as the loss of the Queen, the spreading of the intelligence through the whole hive may be watched by a close observer. The working bees which were near her are observed to run about restlessly, applying their antennre to those of the others they may meet, crossing them and striking lightly with them; these in their turn become agitated and do the same; and thus the intelligence is speedily propagated throughout the hive. In the same manner, when two bees meet each other out of their hives, they seem to reconnoitre one another for some time by the movements of their antennae; and often. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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