Waldemar wrote:


> > Set out scented (mint, lavendar) sugar water in small jars and patiently 
> > wait for scouts.  When scouts set up a bee line and bring recruits, 
> > start gradually moving the jars in the direction of the departing bees. 
> > Keep a sharp eye out and you'll find the colony.

I will add:
People used to put a dusting of powder-I think flour on bees and then 
,measure the return time -they would then would also have the distance. You 
would have to calibrate as I dont know round trip time...maybe somebody 
would....This from an ol timer at a beek meeting.
Since I am here I will add the following I heard from a guy who went to 
Rhodes College in Memphis. In college they would watch the bee doing the 
waggle dance in an observation hive ,measure certain parameters,mark it, and 
then go to the place the bee dance was indicating . he said most of the time 
they could find that  bee on a flower with the dance info alone.

John Horton 

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