44. THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
"various inftruments, organs, and utenfils, fo well adapted 
to their refpective offices and employments, neceflary 
for their maintenance and defence ; or their. principal 
\parts, which are very obvious to all obfervers, leaving 
the more minute and lefs vifible, (difcerned only by the 
help of the microfcope) to the more curious and fkilful 
anatomifts, to place in a better light. 
Defeription of the Bee. 
A Bee is an infect,* and a flying infect, confifting of — 
three principal parts, viz. the head, the breaft, and the 
belly ; the firft is the leaft, and the aft is the largeft of 
the three. 
In the head (which is of a triangular form) we are 
to confider the external parts; the eyes, the mouth, or 
jaws, the tongue or trunk, and the horns. 
Firft, the eyes, which are of an oblong figure, black 
like jet, tranfparent and immoveable, covered and de- 
fended from all injuries, by an horny tunicle, not eafily 
penetrated ; therefore an effectual fecurity to their fight, 
which fome writers tell us is their weakeft fenfe, tho’ 
fometimes I have found it quick enough to my forrow. 
The eyes ferve as two cheeks, and fupply their place on 
each fide. 
‘The fecond is the mouth, or jaws, opening like the 
mouths of fome fifhes, to the right and left, ferving, in- 
ftead of hands, to carry out of the hives whatever offends, 
_incumbers, or incommodes them, 
Here 
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