Now that people can track bees with radar etc, I wonder whether anybody has checked whether bees prefer a nectar source uphill rather than downhill, meaning that they fly downhill when fully laden?  I imagine you could, in a suitably sloping location, place 2 identical feeders with measured amounts of syrup, train equal numbers of bees from the same hive to each and see which gets emptied first.

Chris


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