. The anatomy of the honey bee. Insects; Bees; Bees Anatomy; Honeybee Anatomy. 36 THE ANATOMY OF THE HONEY BEE. the body. It is again specially developed on the palpuslike append- ages of the sting. (See figs. 36 and 37, StnPlp.) Sections of a bee's antenna show that there are on its surface a great number of minute structures of sev- eral different kinds, though all apparently are to be re- garded as modified hairs, which are undoubtedly the sense organs. Xow the diffi- culty arises of deciding which of these to assign to the sense of touch and which to the sense of smell. Different au- thors
. The anatomy of the honey bee. Insects; Bees; Bees Anatomy; Honeybee Anatomy. 36 THE ANATOMY OF THE HONEY BEE. the body. It is again specially developed on the palpuslike append- ages of the sting. (See figs. 36 and 37, StnPlp.) Sections of a bee's antenna show that there are on its surface a great number of minute structures of sev- eral different kinds, though all apparently are to be re- garded as modified hairs, which are undoubtedly the sense organs. Xow the diffi- culty arises of deciding which of these to assign to the sense of touch and which to the sense of smell. Different au- thors have made such differ- ent interpretations of the sense organs of insects that the student attempting to get information on the subject from books must soon be dis- couraged by their conflicting statements. But- it must be realized that only intelligent guessing is possible where several senses are located on the same part. In the case of the bee some authors have ascribed even a third sense, that of hearing, to the an- tenna?, but there is little evi- dence that bees possess the power of hearing. The senses of taste and touch are pos- sessed by the month parts,. Fig. 12.—Antennal hairs and sense organs (after Schiemenz). A. example of antennal hairs (Hr) imbedded in cuticle {Ctl) but having no nerve connection ; B, hollow hair containing prolongation of special cell (CI) ; C, I>, straight and curved tactile hairs con- nected with basal cells (CI) and nerve fibers (Nv) ; E, conical hair (Hr) sunken in a pit (Pt) of the cuticle, probably an olfactory organ; F, closed sac shut in by thin disc (hr) on surface of antenna and containing a delicately poised cell (CI) with nerve con- nection (Nv). and some entomologists think that they contain organs of smell also. Thus, the organs of sight are apparently the only ones that can not be con- fused with some other sense. The best account of the antennal sense organs of the bee is that of Schiemenz (1883), whose drawings are here re
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