How high [above ground] are these assemblies?  I'm wondering how to spot
one.  I thought they'd be too high to see from the ground.

        J. J.

> << It's a good question, though; how do the
>  bees find the distant assemblies? >>
>
> I remember reading somewhere, maybe Cooper, maybe not, that they head for
a
> low spot on the horizon.  I am not sure that is correct though as I think
I
> found one on 12th May this year at the highest point in Dorset, a clearing
on
> a wooded hill top above the 900' contour.
>
> Chris