. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. that they show a decided preference for blue. He further states that bees have played a very important part in the de- velopment of the color of flowers. He is not alone in holding this view, as it is held by many noted scientists. We call your attention, next, to the thorax, which furnishes points of at- tachment for about all the remaining external organs of our little but inter- esting insect. The thorax is composed Head of Drone—Magnified. keeper and writer, thinks he has dis- covered that without a doubt the bee's organs of hearing are located in
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. that they show a decided preference for blue. He further states that bees have played a very important part in the de- velopment of the color of flowers. He is not alone in holding this view, as it is held by many noted scientists. We call your attention, next, to the thorax, which furnishes points of at- tachment for about all the remaining external organs of our little but inter- esting insect. The thorax is composed Head of Drone—Magnified. keeper and writer, thinks he has dis- covered that without a doubt the bee's organs of hearing are located in the outer joints of the antenna, so that with these two small organs the bee feels, smells and hears. I will not at- tempt a further description of these organs, for a writer and scientist of no less note than Swammerdam closed his description by saying: " I cannot re- frain from confessing, to the glory of the immense, incomprehensible Archi- tect, that I have but imperfectly de- scribed and represented this small or- gan ; for to represent it to the life in its full perfection far exceeds the utmost efforts of human ; The bee is well supplied with visual organs, having on each side of its head a large compound eye which is com- posed of a great number of single eyes that are hexagonal in shape. Mr. Ches- hire counted 6,300 of these facets, or small eyes, on one side of a worker bee; 4,920 in a queen, the mother of this worker; and in one of her sons, a drone, he found the immense number of 13,090. In addition to these compound eyes, there are found on the upper part of the head three simple eyes, called " ; from " ocellus," a diminutive of the Latin, " oculus," an eye. We all know how accurately a bee can mark the location of its home, and how quickly it finds its way back to its own hive. Sir John Lubbock has dem- onstrated by a series of experiments, that bees can distinguish colors, and. Head of Worker—Magnified
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