Fascinating, Bill.  I'm tempted to build one of those just for my own
entertainment.
 
 
Walter Weller
Post Office Box 270
Wakefield, Louisiana  70784
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>I once built a simple maze for the bees.  Had it at the County fair in
>Maryland  USA.  I had the observation hive with a pipe to the outside.
>Also had the maze with an outside pipe too, next to the pipe for the
>obs.
>hive.  A little honey on the pipe at the entrance to the maze got the
>bees
>started.  The maze had three sections with moveable glass over each
>section.  Each section had a block, which was a different color and it
>was
>removable also.  The blocks could be swapped around to change the
>maze.  A
>top to a plastic tub was put in at the front and as the bees located
>the
>honey, in it I moved it to the next section of the maze.  I could have
>done
>quite a bit of studying with that thing, but at the fair I didn't have
>time.
>
>But I was just facinated with that thing as I watched the bees
>manuever
>through the thing.  And when I moved the blocks around the bees would
>try
>to go the same way as before until they figuired out that it had
>changed.
>I watched some bees ( as much as I had time for) and they never seemed
>to
>find their way.  Of course my observations were for only a short time
>and
>in no way constituted any scientific evidence.
>
>The one thing the public liked about it was that while the bees were
>feeding on the honey, you could remove the glass and pet the bees!
>The
>kids were simply amazed.
>
>And you know what else ---  the bees didn't fly when they filled up
>with
>the honey ---- they walked out the same way they came in.
>
>billy bee
>
>
>
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>> From: Stan Sandler
>
>Remarkably, bees can be taught to
>> navigate a maze in only 6 times the length of time that it takes to
>teach
>a
>> rat (on average).
>>
>>
>