. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1014. American Hee Jiournal. £<•/' Bri) 20 Fig, 3.—Side view of sting of a worker-bee with its accessory parts, showing location groups of olfactory organs as indicated by the numbers. and wiiitergreen, honey and comb, pol- len, flowers of honeysuckle, leaves and stems of pennyroyal, spearmint and sage, and bee stings. After testing many workers, queens and drones, witli these odors it was found that they have an acute sense of smell. Drones smell slightly better than workers, and workers smell considerably better than . queens. To study the
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1014. American Hee Jiournal. £<•/' Bri) 20 Fig, 3.—Side view of sting of a worker-bee with its accessory parts, showing location groups of olfactory organs as indicated by the numbers. and wiiitergreen, honey and comb, pol- len, flowers of honeysuckle, leaves and stems of pennyroyal, spearmint and sage, and bee stings. After testing many workers, queens and drones, witli these odors it was found that they have an acute sense of smell. Drones smell slightly better than workers, and workers smell considerably better than . queens. To study the behavior of workers with mutilated antennas, and to see if the antenn;e carry the olfactory or- gans, the following experiments were performed: One antenna of each of many workers was pulled off. Thus mutilated bees are not entirely normal in behavior. They live only two-thirds as long as unmutilated ones, and seem to smell one-half as well as normal workers. Workers with one antenna pulled oft' and with two to eight joints of the other one cut off are still more abnormal in behavior and respond less slowly to odors. Workers with both antenn:e pulled off, cut off, covered with shellac or celloidin are entirely abnormal in behavior and live less than Por3. 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 [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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