How She Hears and Smells. 67 
So you see these antenne are very im- 
portant and valuable. But you have not 
yet heard all. When bees have anything 
to say to each other they say it by means 
of their antenne. Just how this is done I 
cannot say, as I do not know. But they 
manage it somehow. 
When two bees meet they cross antenne 
in a friendly way, instead of _Shaking hands 
and asking after each =U Rea hee: 
other’s health ; that is, ae do? 
if they are friends, they do. If they are 
not members of the same family, I am sorry 
to say they fight. Two sisters, however, 
never fight. 
Miss Apis’s very life depends upon her 
antenna. By means of them she hears, 
smells, discovers the nature of objects 
about her, and communicates with her 
fellow-bees. 
When she is awake her antenne are 
almost always in motion, and she is con- 
stantly touching the flowers with them, 
