In the message I posted on BEE-L yesterday, I included the
following statement:


    As to the sensitivity of bees to odors, recent work with the
location of buried land mines by honey bees illustrates the extreme
sensitivity of bees to trace amounts of odor.  It also means that
those who claim that bees can be recruited without the use of odor
may have merely had an artifact in their experimental designs (Jerry
Bromenshenk might comment on that point).  Von Frisch was also
adamant about the need for odor during recruitment (see above web
sites).

    See also:  ODORS, WIND AND COLONY FORAGING.  Part I of Three
Parts: The Need for Odor.  Am. Bee J., 138:746-748. October 1998.


    One can read that article on the following web site;


http://www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/abjoct1998a.htm

                                                        Adrian
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