"The Auditory Sense of the Honey-Bee" is a 1922 work by N. E. Mcindoo exploring the sound-producing capacity and apparatus of the honey bee. This profusely-illustrated and detailed treatise will appeal to modern bee-keepers and those with scientific interest in the honey bee. Contents include: "So-called Vocal Organs of Insects", "Sound-producing Organ of Honey-bee", "Experiments to Determine how Bees make Sounds", "Morphology of Sound-producing Organ", "Sound-producing Organs of Other Insects", "So-called Auditory Organs of Insects", "Supposed Auditory Organs of Honey-bee", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Bee-keeping.

Excerpt from The Auditory Sense of the Honey-Bee Stridulation, special sound-producing apparatus, and various types of supposed auditory organs have been described in true bugs, moths and butter ies, ies and mosquitoes, beetles, and ants, and also in a few larvae and pupae, yet we know very little about this subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

While we may have always assumed that insects employ auditory communication, our understanding of it has been impeded by various technical challenges. In comparison to the study of an insect's visual and olfactory expression, research in the area of acoustic communication has lagged behind. Filling this void, Insect Sounds and Communication is the

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