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that period there were from one to four bees inside of the box 

 all the time. 



I .\ri.ki\n \T 32. Standing in the same place mentioned in ex- 

 periment 3i,I held an empty red box in my hand. This box had 

 'nitnincd honey. 



Several bee-, approached and hovered around the box, and t\\<- 

 entered. 



IN I 1 KI'RETATION OF THE Ex PI-KIM I NTS. 



Vision or smell or some combination of the t\\o are instrumental 

 in '^iiidiii'4 in-ects to flowers. Lately some observers have 



d ilia! \i-ion plays no part in thi- belia\ior; indeed, ii is 

 ' la in ii -d ilia i ii is not even olfactory perception-, but odors a< i ini; 

 n-ilexK that lead insects to flowers. No one \\lin ha- made 

 ol.ser\ alii -i i- lor himself would think of claiming thai smell pla\ s 

 in- role in in-ect behavior; but, the experiment- described al-o\e 

 -ho\\ i -i. in lu-i\e|y that odors, acting rcllexh . do not lead I 

 lo llouer-. In I -i a lilies where bees are m-i accu- turned to obi. i in 

 hone\ from anything but flowers, hone) ma\ be placed on small 



di-i I l, 17 , or ill open ve > 1- I \. Jo .1 and />'. J7 and 

 left -\|'i>~ei| l<-r a li-ni; time without bein^ re-pi. nded t<. by tin- 

 I'.- e-, captured in In. tile- and turned Im.-e upon <IUc- that 

 are \\ell xii|.|ilicd with In -ne\ , will usually di-part \\ itlmut pa\ ini; 

 an\ atteniion to the honey (Ex. 2). If a llo\\er upon which 

 Mich a In -ni; is so manipulated as t<- bring the bee in 



clo~e pn-ximii \ to the honey of one of those di-c-. -he \\ ill n-uall\ 

 depart \\ithoiii re-ponding to cither the hi-ne\ or the disc (Ex. 

 3, 4 '. It i- incredible that an od<.r of hone\ loo \\eak to at tract 

 3 a feu mil!imeter> oft i- able to entice them from several 

 meters iii the air. Then, too, each \ my di-o contained more than 

 a thou-and times as much honey as any one of those !lo\\ t i - 

 did nectar, and the cornucopias thai 1 u-ed contained more than 



tile di-c-; \ct the bee- pa ed 1 >\ the tea-t of hmieN prepared 



for them to sip tin- meaner -ii|i|il> of nectar stored in the neighbor- 

 ing; -mall llower-. ^uch behaxior \\ould be impossible if their 

 mo\emcnl- \\ere controlled b\ the hone\-oilor actiiiL; retlexK . 



To claim that the nectar of the tl. \\i-r h reater attractive 



power than the IIOIHA \\--uld be illo-ical for: 1st, hone\ i- con- 

 centrated nectar: and 2nd, these same bee-, after they ha\e 



