GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



18. For, although color attracts bees, it is only one of the 

 means used by nature to bring them in contact with the 

 flowers. The smell of honey is, certainly, the main attraction, 

 and this attraction is so powerful, that frequently, at day- 

 break in the summer, the bees will be found in full flight, 

 gathering the honey which has been secreted in the night, when 

 nothing, on the preceding evening, could have predicted such 

 a crop. This happens especially when there is a production of 

 honey-dew, after a storm. We have even known beefe'to gather 



Fig. 3. 



LONGITUDINAL SECTION OP DKONR ANTLNNA. NERVE RTRUCTURES RE- 



MOVEH. 



(Magnified 20 times. From Cheshire.) 



A. sc, scape ; fl, flagellum ; 1, 2, &c., number of joints ; af, antennary 

 fossa, or hollow ; tr, trachea ; m_, soft membrane ; wh, webbed hairs ; Im, 

 levator muscle ; (Zm^ depressor muscle. 



B, small portion of flagellum (magnified 60 times) ; n, nerve ; a, 

 articulation of joint. 



honey from the tulip trees, (Liriodendron tuUpifera) on very 

 clear moonlight nights. 



19. The antennae (fig. 3, A, B), two flexible horns which 

 adorn the head of the bee, are black, and composed of twelve 

 joints, in the queen and the worker, and thirteen in the drone. 

 The first of these joints, the scape, next to the head, is longer 

 than the others, and can move in every direction. The an- 

 tenna is covered with hairs. 



