Hello Julian

Have you seen my "A comprehensive honey bee dance and odour `language'
hypothesis". Bee World 81 (1): 5-10 (2000). B J Donovan?

The essence of the paper is that perhaps some bees use the information
in the dance to avoid arriving at the known source, so they can more
quickly find and exploit new sources which they locate by following
odour plumes.
The competetive foraging success of the hive is thus maximised.

The hypothesis is a new way of looking at the whole question of whether
or not bees use the information. Each of the 2 competing hypotheses of
Karl von Frisch and Adrian Wenner is shown to be a part - and a correct
part- of a greater whole (but I'm sure Adrian will disagree).

I can send a reprint to anyone interested.

There is recent paper which summarizes the dance language information -
but which doesn't refer to mine as it seems the literature review was
completed before my paper was published:

Dyer, F. C. 2002: The biology of the dance language. Annual Review of
Entomology 47: 917-949.

Regards to all,

Barry Donovan.
Canterbury Agriculture and Science Centre
Lincoln.
Private Bag 4704
Christchurch
New Zealand.
[log in to unmask]




______________________________________________________
CAUTION: The information contained in this email is privileged
and confidential.  If you read this message and you are not the
intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use,
dissemination, distribution or reproduction of all or part of the
contents is prohibited. If you receive this message in error,
please notify the sender immediately.

Any opinions or views expressed in this message are those of the
individual sender and may not represent those of their employer.