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6h10.13 Bee's Eye

PURPOSE: To show how a Bee's eye operates.

DESCRIPTION: A pair of polaroids are crossed so that no light gets through.   Insert a Bee's eye between the cross polaroids and observe that the orientation effects the image.  

EQUIPMENT: Bee's eye and cross polaroids, as photographed.

SETUP NOTES: None.

Bees their vision, chemical senses, and language, 1950, Frisch, Karl von.


 

Updated by Jun Qi in 3/22/2000