14 PHYSiOLOGT OP tHE MONEY-BEfi. 



val of several months was not sufficient to efface the impression 

 they had received.— (Huber, "Nouvelles Observations sur les 

 AbeiUes," Geneve, 1.814.) 



33. It is well known, also, that bees wintered in cellars 

 (646) remember their previous location wlien taken out in 

 the Spring. 



If food is given to a colony, at the same hour, and in the 

 same spot, for two days in succession, they will expect it 

 the third day, at the same time and place. 



34. When one of her antennas is cut off, no change takes 

 place in the behavior of the queen. If you cut both antennae 

 near the head, this mother, formerly held in such high considera- 

 tion by her people, loses all her influence, and even the m aternal 

 instinct disappears. Instead of laying her eggs in the cells, she 

 drops them here and there. — (Huber.) 



The experiments made by Huber on workers and drones, 

 in regard to the loss of the antennae, are equally conclusive. 

 The workers, deprived of their antennae, returned to the 

 hive, where they remained inactive and soon deserted it for- 

 ever, light being the only thing which seemed to have any 

 attraction for them. 



In the same way, drones, deprived of their antennae, de- 

 serted the observatory hive, as soon as the light was excluded 

 from it, although it was late in the afternoon, and no drones 

 were flying out. Their exit was attributed to the loss of 

 this organ, which helps to direct them in darkness. 



35. The inference is obvious, that a bee deprived of her 

 antennae loses the use of her intellect. 



" If you deprive a bird, a pigeon, for instance, of its cerebral 

 lobe, it will be deprived of its instinct, yet it will live if you stufl 

 it ,with food. Furthermore, its brain will eventually be renewed, 

 thus bringing back all the uses of its senses."— (Claude Bernard, 

 " Science Exp6rimentale.") 



Bees, however, cannot live without their antennse, and 

 these organs would not grow again, like the brains of birds, 

 the legs of crawfishes, or the tails of lizards. 



