Miss Apis and Her Eyes. 25 
eye every second it would take almost four 
hours to get to the end, without stopping 
to take a sip of honey, or even to say, Oh, 
dear me! 
How would you like your mother to look 
at you out of more than twelve thousand 
eyes when you had been doing something 
naughty? Two eyes are bad enough at 
such times. Let us hope that young bees 
never do wrong. 
Just imagine a naughty little bee looking 
up to find twelve thousand six hundred 
small eyes and three large ones solemnly 
staring at his wickedness ! 
The truth is, all the thousands of small 
eyes that make up each large eye work 
together and act as one eye. 
Miss Apis’s large eyes are called ‘“com- 
pound eyes” because they are made of so 
many small eyes, or “ facets.” 
The facets are so very small that you 
cannot see them except by the aid of a 
microscope; and here is a picture showing 
