Hi Ruth
 
> There is nothing amazing about that; which you will understand
> if you read my explanation of honeybee-dances.
 
I have read more of your words than I care to recall, but don't recall why you or anyone else should fail to be amazed by the dance.  That a mere insect can express - for whatever reason - in a dance the vector of an interesting place it just visited as well as clues on the distance to it is simply wonderful, isn't it?!  It sure amazes me.  There are few means of understanding how insects interpret their environment, and this (even if you are still in denial about fellow bees using the information) is one.
 
> But, neither he, nor anyone else, have ever achieved such a 
> confirmation, and his pre-WWII results in tests on honeybee 
> recruitment, suffice to show that it is most unlikely that
> anyone ever could achieve such a confirmation.
 
That you will never accept such a confirmation is clear.  But if by 'confirmation' you mean 'accept as very probably true' then most entomologists do accept the interpretation offered by authors of the papers we hotly debated earlier last year.
 
take care, and keep an open mind!
 
Gavin

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