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Can BecsHcar ?— If So, How Do 

 Yoti Know! 



ttnery 963.— How do you know that bees 

 can hear ?— School-Girl. 



H. D. Cutting — I don't know. 



G. M. Doolittle — 1 do not believe they 

 do. 



W. G. Larrabee — I don't know that 

 they can. 



B. Taylor — I deny it. I never said I 

 " knowed." 



Prof. A. J. Cook— I don't think they 

 can. See my "Bee-Keepers' Guide." 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley — I don't know. 

 How do you know that they can't hear ? 



Chas. Dadant & Son — If you place a 

 bee-hive in a very dark room and scatter 

 the bees, their hum will draw them to- 

 gether. 



Eugene Secor — Bees have no ears, and 

 I do not know whether they hear or feel 

 sound, but that they do somehow recog- 

 nize certain sounds I am convinced. 



J. A. Green — I don't. I do not think 

 they hear just as we do, though they un- 

 doubtedly recognize some sounds that 

 we hear, and probably some that we do 

 not. 



J. E. Pond — I don't know. Does any 

 one ? That they are susceptible to jars 

 I have often found. I presume they can 

 hear, as I believe the all-wise Creator 

 designed they should. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — At one time I had 

 a very cross colony of bees. I used to 

 amuse myself by stepping out on the 

 porch, and as soon as I made the least 

 noise they were there. 



Dr. .1. P. H. Brown — By their actions 

 when any forcible object is applied to 

 any part of their hive. The "how" 

 part of this question has led to much dis- 

 cussion among naturalists. 



E. France — I believe that bees hear, 

 but whether they have ears or not I 

 don't know. I know by the actions of 

 the bees that they recognize sounds, but 

 how they get the impression I don't 

 know. 



C. H. Dibbern — Well, now, dear 

 "School-girl," I do not know "for sure" 

 that bees can hear at all, as they do not 

 appear to have any ears. I think, how- 

 ever, that they are able to distinguish 

 sound in some way. 



Rev. M. Mahin — Of an evening when 

 millers were troublesome T have seen one 

 alight down on the alighting-board, and 

 the nearest bee would utter a sharp cry, 

 and every one of the guards would in- 

 stantly rush in that direction. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater — I do not/cnow that 

 they do hear, but what most of all 

 makes me believe they do hear, is the 

 different sounds they produce under dif- 

 ferent circumstances. A person much 

 with them soon learns their language. 



P. H. Elwood— The teachers taught 

 us so ! I know of no reason why bees 

 should have a variety of voice, unless 

 they can distinguish them by their or- 

 gans of hearing. They have a hum of 

 contentment, a cry of pain, a voice of 

 rage, etc. 



Dr. C. C. Miller — One day a swarm 

 commenced to return to its old hive. To 

 stop it I moved it to a new place. The 

 bees came there. Then I put it on a 

 wheelbarrow and journeyed around the 

 apiary with it. Whenever I stopped the 

 bees came. The hive looked like other 

 hives, so I think it was the sound that 

 attracted the bees. 



Jas. A. Stone — I could not give better 

 proof than that when swarming, if the 

 queen is retained at the hive they some- 

 times return before they alight. And 

 they have no way of knowing as soon 

 of her absence except by sound. Also, 

 you may mash the heads of as many 

 drones as you please, without danger, 

 but when you get your stick on the head 

 of a worker, you can hear a different 

 hum, then look out for stings ! 



G. W. Demaree — How do I know ? If 

 I was near you, and you did not know it, 

 and I should speak to you, and you 

 should "start" or "jump," wouldn't I 

 know you heard ? If you were driving 

 a horse, and some one was to shoot off a 

 gun, and your horse should "jump," 

 wouldn't you know he heard ? In the 

 same way we know bees hear. Take a 

 basket of bees to a prepared hive, and 

 start a quart of them into the hive ; 

 hear the "hum," then look in the basket. 

 See? 



R. Ii. Taylor— Because they notice 

 sharp noises, as the beating of tin vessel; 

 because the call of the first bees of a 

 swarm that find the entrance of the hive 

 provided for them is immediately re- 

 sponded to by the others, even those at 

 a considerable distance; because the cry 

 of pain or fright of bees accidentally 

 caught in handling the combs often in- 

 stantaneously arouses the bees at some 

 distance away ; and because queens re- 

 spond to the piping challenge of their 

 sisters. 



Rev. Emerson T. Abbott — Because 

 when the other girls talk to her in school 

 she answers. If you do not believe it, 

 take out the queen for a short time until 

 the bees miss her, and then set her on 

 top of one of the frames and listen for 

 the note of warning that will sound 

 through the hive at once. The ability 

 to make a voluntary sound implies an 

 ability to receive the vibration of the 

 atmosphere, which that sound is, when 

 said vibrations are caused by an insect 

 of the same family. Noise means ears, 

 and ears mean noise. 



Wm. M. Barnum — Well — I don't know. 

 The fact is, I don't know any more about 

 this peculiar anatomical problem than 

 does our little "School-Girl." Bees 

 seem to convey ideas to one another by 

 touching mandibles ; this is against the 

 " hearing " proposition ; but, we are all 

 aware of the shrill piping of the queen, 

 and the attendant agitation of the bees. 

 Now, little "School-Girl," doesn't it say 

 somewhere in zoology, that things that 

 iiKiJiC sounds can /icar the same ? If 

 this is true, probably the bees hear ? But 

 7ioiu f I believe Prof. Cook says they 

 have no visible ear-organs. 



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