Thanks to all who have helped me on and off list with
finding the honeybee semiochemicals, I have placed the
info in my files for future reference.  I did manage
to find what I need thanks to the kind efforts of a
list member.  Thank You!

As a token of my appreciation,  and so I don't violate
any rules against sending thank you notes on list.  I
wish to share this highly classified honeybee
pheromone database link I recently found on honeybee
and other insect semiochemicals:

http://www.pherobase.com/database/species-Apis-mellifera.html

Somebody else was asking for chemical composition of
honeybee pheromones not too long ago,  but I can't
seem to locate the message in the archives,  I hope
the link will help whoever it was.

If you click on the compound,  you can view the
structure,,, which really don't mean a thing to me,,
but thought it was neat anyway.

A totally different subject:
I'm looking for a written reference for my honeybee
trivia collection on how many crevices swarm scouts
will investigate while looking for a potential nest
site.

I seem to recall reading 4,000 crevices are
investigated by scouts searching for a home, but the
computer locked up before I could save the info.  It
seems logical that if an average swarm is 10,000 or so
bees (Winston), and 5% are scouts (Seeley et al.1979),
 500 bees could easily search 4,000 crevices.  But I
wondered if this info was in a study somewhere.
Thanks!

Joe
PA



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