. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. SCENT OF BEES. 892 SKEP. cued from the workers, and confined in the hive in an introducino-cage containing can- dy, but in a short time died, probably of starvation, for we are sure she was not stung by the bees in tlie ball, for she was taken out at once and we never lost sight of her. Although there was candy in her cage she evidently did not recognize it as food, since she was not attracted to it by smell, and on account of the lo
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. SCENT OF BEES. 892 SKEP. cued from the workers, and confined in the hive in an introducino-cage containing can- dy, but in a short time died, probably of starvation, for we are sure she was not stung by the bees in tlie ball, for she was taken out at once and we never lost sight of her. Although there was candy in her cage she evidently did not recognize it as food, since she was not attracted to it by smell, and on account of the loss of her antennse she was not fed through the meshes of the wire cloth. Wlien the workers are deprived of their antennae they remain inactive in the hive, and soon desert it since they are attracted only by light. We cut the antenna? from sev- eral workers, marked them on the thorax to make it more easy to follow their ac- tions, and then i)ut them in an observatory hive from Avhicli they had been taken. The other bees at once recognized that there was something wrong with them, and gathered around them much as they surround the queen, and repeatedly tried to feed them; but the injured workers could not guide their tongues, and consequently did not take food readily. One worker with its antennae off was put on the alighting-board of its own hive, but was at once repelled and carried away by one of its own hive-mates. Drones act in a very similar manner, but are frequently rejected by the workers as soon as they are put in the hive. Huber reports that, as soon as the light was exclud- ed from his observatory hive, although it was late in the afternoon, and no drones were flying out, the drones from which the antennas had been cut deserted the hive, since light was the only thing which attract ed them. From these observations it seems clear that bees recognize each other very largely by scent, but also by touch. The workers and drones operated on were returned to their own hive,
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