26 The Bee People. 
you a portion of the eye considerably 
magnified. 
Whoever goes as far as Miss Apis does 
in search of flowers needs good eyes that 
can see a long distance. She has been 
known to fly four or five miles in 
search of flowers; just think of going, 
back and forth from hive togyw 
flowers and flowers to hive Nh 
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any such distance as that! VUE 
Asa rule, however, Miss Apis goes only a 
little way, half a mile or so, but even for 
this she needs good, far-seeing eyes. 
And she has them, —for her compound 
eyes are very far-sighted. 
This is probably the reason she needs 
the three small eyes, which are near- 
sighted and enable her to see things close 
at hand. 
Although she possesses such a prodigious 
number of eyes, Miss Apis has no eyelids. 
No, indeed! she has eye-hairs instead, that 
point outward and do not prevent her see- 
