Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — Wonderful Eyes of the Bee. [ARTICLE]

Wonderful Eyes of the Bee.

Every bee has two kinds of eyes; the two large, compound ones, looking like hemispheres on either side, and the three simple or single eyes, which crown the head. Each compound eye (as one would naturally suppose from the term which designates it) is really an immense aggregation of eyt?s, each being composed of 3,500 facets, which means that every object seen has its image reflected 3,500 times in ,the bee’s tiny brain. Every one of these facets is the base cf an inverted hexagonal pyramid, whose apex is fitted snugly to the head. Each of these pyramid facets may be termed a perfect eye, for each has its own iris and optic nerve. The late King Lobengula’s sons hßve been visiting Cecil Rhodes al Cape Town. They are not promising youngsters, being averse to work oi instruction, and much under the influence of their misfit divine right