Show the ears of insects the naturalists natura lists haap not as yet bean able to answer the burning question can beba hear but their researches along that line have resulted in many queer discoveries simply because a beo has no ears on the sides of his bead it is no sign whatever that he is wholly without some sort of an auditory nerve this last assertion is proved by the fact that grasshoppers crickets locusts and flies all have their ears situated in queer places under the wings on the middle of the body and even on the sides of their legs the common house fly does his hearing of some little rows of corpuscles corpus cles which aro situated on the knobbed threads which occupy the place which are taken up by the hind wings of other of insects the garden slug pr shell less snail has his organs of hearing situated on each side of his neck and the common grasshopper has them on each of his broad flat thighs in acme of the smaller insects they are at the bases of the wings and in others on the of the feet st louis be publio |