CHAPTER VIII. 



ORGANS OF SPECIAL SENSE— ANTENNA AND EYES. 



Difficulty of Subject — Touch, Taste, and Sight — 

 Antennas — Movements of Scape and Flagellum — 

 Feeling Hairs — Smell Hollows — Special Formation 

 in Queen — Conoid Hairs — Six Distinct Structures 

 — Hearing Organs — Sir J. Lubbock's Experiments 

 — Proofs of Bees Hearing— Smelling — Experi- 

 ments with Male Moths — Comparison of the Sexes 

 — Number of Smell Organs — The Equipment of 

 the Drone — Compound Eye — Pigment — Hexagonal 

 Facets — Methods of Examination — Crystalline 

 Cone — Nerve Elements of Eye — Mosaic Vision — 

 Microscopic Experiment — Stemmata — Colour Sense 

 — Albino and Eyeless Drones — Eyes of the Sexes 

 Compared — Conclusion. 

 The study of the special senses of creatures so far 

 removed from ourselves as bees cannot but present 

 great difficulties, quite apart from the minuteness of 

 the structures involved ; for it is by no means impos- 

 sible — nay, it is, rather, highly probable — they possess 

 modifications of sensibility which we can no more 

 truly realise than can the blind imagine the difference 

 between red and green, 



