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Show WHY BEES WORE IN THE DARE. Every one knows what fresh honey is like a clear, yellow syrup, without with-out any trace of solid sugar in it. After straining, it gradually assumes a crystal appearance; it candies, as the saying is, and ultimately becomes be-comes a solid mass of honey. It has been suspected that this change is due to photographic action the ...same-agent which alters the molec1lv-:rt''1'"'v,.'""' lar arranegment of the iodine of silver sil-ver on the excited collodion plate ' and determines the formation of camphor and iodine crystals in a bottle, causes honey to assume a crystalline form. M. Scheiber enclosed en-closed strained honey in well-corked 1 flasks, some of which he kept in perfect per-fect darkness, while others were ex-I ex-I posed to the light. The result has ! been that the portion exposed to the light soon crystallizes, while that kept in the dark remains unchanged. Hence we see why the bees are so careful to work in the dark, and why they are so care(ul to obscure the glass windows which are sometimes some-times placed in their hives. The existence of the young depend on the liquidity of the saccharine food presented to them, and if light were allowed access to this, in all probability proba-bility it would prove fatal to the inmates in-mates of the hive. |
