>I think bees are very intelligent. For whatever reason bees prefer nectar
over sugar syrup and you think bees would prefer watered down honey over
sugar syrup and so do I. In my opinion this is probably because they know
something that you do not. Not only that but they probably know something
even the scientist do not yet know

Snodgrass says this about the brain in his “Anatomy of the Honey Bee”

The dorsal protocerbral lobes are broadly joined to each other, and the
large optic lobes arise from the sides of the protocerbrum by narrowed
stalks. The deutocerebrum consists of two pear-shaped antennal lobes freely
projecting at the sides of the stomodaeum from the lower ends of the
protocerbral lobes; from each there is given off a large sensory antennal
nerve and smaller motor nerves to the antennal muscles. The tritocerbral
region of the adult brain lies behind the deutocererbral lobes, but it is
so reduced that it can be identified only the the origins of the frontal
connective and the labral nerves, which issue from beneath the deutocerbral
lobes. There is no free suboesophageal tritocerbral commisure in the adult
bee such as that of the larva, the commisure being buried in the
suboesophageal ganglion. The latter, moreover, is so closely connected
withe the brain that the cirmumoesophageal connectives themselves are
almost obliterated. The frontal ganglion is relatively small and its brain
connectives are much longer than in the larva, but the ganglion gives off
anteriorly a median frontal nerve and posteriorly a recurrent nerve that
runs back on the dorsal wall of the stomodaeum.

So Keith, where exactly in there do the bees do their reasoning? Is it done
in the protocerbral lobes or the tritocerbral region? Perhaps the
suboesophageal tritocerbral commisure? <g>

Regards,
Dick Allen

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