is elaborately equipped with various nerves and senses including 

 even taste organs. There are, however, special tactile sensory 

 processes found on the foot, and elsewhere, of course, upon the body, 

 which take the form of short hairs, sensitive to touch, and these 

 supply the bee with the necessary information. 



Thus the reader who has followed through the various processes 

 and anatomical features of the sting may perhaps be comforted when 

 next stung, at the thought of the complex organisation which has 

 been brought into play to accomplish the deed. 



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