I just happened to post an
article related to the daily rhythm
cycles of the honeybee to the
Historical Honeybee Articles Group.

(Article Excerpt)

During  June of 1955 Dr. Max 
Renner, zoologist of the University
of Munich, brought 5,000 Parisian 
bees to the American Museum of 
Natural History.

In Paris, Renner had trained
them to forage for sugar water
from 8:15 to 10:15 p.m. Paris time.
He wanted to find out whether
bees have an internal mechanism
that recognizes time intervals.

A room at the museum here was
converted into a duplicate of the
bees' room in Paris. No sugar
water was left for them the first
three days. But the bees showed
up for feeding at 3:15 to 5:15 p.m.,
EDT, which corresponds to the
time they fed in Paris. Paris time
is five hours ahead of New York
time.

Best Wishes
J. Waggle

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