Tu order to test the power of bees to appreciate culonr he placed some honey on slip of glass, and pat the glass on a piece of blue paper. When a bee had made several journeys, and thas become accustomed to the blae-colour, he placed some more honey io the same manner on orange paper, where the bine had been, and removed the glass with the honey on bine paper about x foot away, The bee retarned as usual to the place where it bad been accustomed to find the honey; but though it was still there, it did not alight, bat paused for a moment #8 if it did not like the, new colour, and then dashed straight away to the blue paper. The bes certainly preferred the blue to the orange colour.
Next to honey pollen is the principal food which bees seek for in flowers, for the larve. The collecting is carried by means of specially constracted its and bristles, which clothe various parts of the body." Some of these beira are soft and flexible, and act like a dusting brash. The bristles are firmer, jand form small besoms. Those brashrs occur on the end-segments of both bind lege. When the bees stroke the pollen-covered anthers, or the petals on which the loose pollen has fallen, with their legs or body, ti pollen with the small brashes, chinks between the bristles a filled op. Moreover, the bees, wit help of the brashes on their hind legs, are able to comb and sweep off the pollen which was imprisoned in the soft sirs; and thus these brashes form ex+ cellent collecting apparatus,
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