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 1 



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 



