MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 51 
enough of their ingenuity in other cases, not 
to doubt their success in obtaining entrance. 
In endeavouring to ascertain the precise 
situation of the organ, there is considerable 
difficulty. Hurber’s experiment to ascertain 
this point, is full of intrest, and we recom- 
mend a perusal of the account of it as de- 
tailed in his work. He dipped a pencil in 
oil of turpentine, a substance very disagree- 
able to insects, and presented it to the thorax, 
the stigmata, the abdomen, the antenne, the 
eyes, and the proboscis, without the Bee be- 
traying the slightest symptom of uneasy feel- 
ing. It was otherwise when he held it to the 
mouth ; it started, left the honey by which it 
had been enticed, and was on the point of 
taking flight, when the pencil was with- 
drawn. He next filled the mouth with flour- 
paste, when the insect seemed to have lost 
the sense of smell altogether. Honey did 
not attract it, nor did offensive odors, even 
the formidable turpentine, annoy it, The 
organ of smell therefore, appears to reside 
in the mouth, or in the parts depending on 
