ANTS LISTEN TO MUSIC
SENSITIVITY OF INSECTS Bees can be taught to select boxes containing sugar by their colour ; butterflies can distinguish between apple juiee and . other liquids by touching them with their f eet, and one form of ant will respond to high staccato notes from a violin. Such are some of the examples of highly developed insect senses described by Dr. H. Eltringham in his presidential address before | the Entomological Society of London, ( recently. "Many insects are so highly organised," said Dr. Eltringham, "that I feel compelled to credit them with faculties at least in some degrees more advanced than mere unconscious responses. Ants can reeognise each other and distinguish members of a rival colony. They can induce others to join them in some apparently purposeful action." Discussing the eyes of insects, Dr. Eltringham said that in the eye of the butterfly there might be 500 independent components.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 636, 14 September 1933, Page 7
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150ANTS LISTEN TO MUSIC Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 636, 14 September 1933, Page 7
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