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>Hi Allen and all:
>>Something I read somewhere, long long ago:
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>>Bees tend to build their hive to correspond to the angle of
>>inclination of the lines of magnetic force -- more vertical nearer
>>the poles, and horizontal at the equator.  Hence the Kenyan hive is
>>an equatorial hive design and may not be suited to the extremes of
>>north or south.
>>
I'm note sure how this relates but... I vaguely remember something about
some bees taken on a space shuttle some years back.  It only took them a
few hours of confusion in a weightless environment before they got
orientated enough to build comb in relatively straight and normal patterns.
Seems like their magnetforceceptors would have been totally baffled as
they rapidly raced around all lats and longs?
Ed

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