Amador Ledger-Dispatch, Volume 1902, Number 23, 23 May 1902 — The "Ean" of Insects. [ARTICLE]

The "Ean" of Insects.

■ The naturalists have not as yet been able to answer the burning question, Can boos hear? But their researches along that line have resulted in many queer discoveries. Simply because a bee has no ears on the sides of his head 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 by means of some little rows of corpuscles which are situated on the knobbed threads whioh occupy the place which are taken up by the hind wings of other speoies of insects. The garden slug or shell-less snail has his organs of hearing situated on each side of his neck, and the common grasshopper has them on each pf his broad, flat thighs. .In some of the smaller insects they are at the bases of the wings, and in others on" *K» bottom of tha feet — St. IJonis Rf*.