--- Rip Bechmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Waggle and others reply regarding my question;

> Where have you shown that just because a bee flies
> further it is "less
> efficient"?

Bechmann,

In honeybees make all foraging decisions in terms of
their costs and benefits, Seeley has shown this.   All
things being equal, a colony that must forage further
to obtain the same reward would be less efficient than
one that does not because it would need to expend more
time and energy to obtain the same reward.  Time saved
also means more foraging trips per day which increases
the productivity of the colony.



Joe Waggle ~ Derry, PA
Small Cell Beekeeping
‘Bees Gone Wild Apiaries'
http://www.biologicalbeekeeping.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Organicbeekeepers/



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