Verkkoafter lubbock's death the dominant view among scientific experts was that lubbock's researches on ants were his most important work (donisthorpe,. Verkkoexperimental study of behaviour. The originality of his approach was very evident in his work on the colour vision of bees. Since the time of sprengel in the eighteenth. Some of his earliest systematic investigations of insect and marine. Verkkoin the final contribution, i examine lubbock's combination of original research and public dissemination of science within the context of his role as a.