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Re: Reception and learning of electric fields in bees
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Geoff Manning <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 27 May 2013 16:26:53 +1000
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On 27/05/2013 12:51 AM, Jerry Bromenshenk wrote:

>    especially
> since I've become more and more a doubter of the dance  language.  Our own
> data argues against it - we couldn't condition bees the  way we do, if the
> dance language worked as most describe.

Could you expand on this?  I seem to recall that Seeley  (et al ?) was 
able to read the "language" and tell where the bees were foraging, which 
would seem to me to be a good argument for it. Then again my memory may 
well be faulty.

Geoff Manning

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