On 26/03/2012 3:40 PM, allen wrote:

> >What is being suggested is that well provisioned bees reduce their 
> foraging after the storage area in the region of the hive occupied by 
> the bees is full and capped, and the bees have little interest in 
> foraging.
a colony of bees
-well fortified with honey, would begin
to abandon foraging great distances,
in favor of foraging closer to home.


So what was originally suggested is that they change their foraging 
distance, not their foraging intensity.  As I understand it, a distant 
source is not normally as economic as a close source, so bees switch 
eventually to a closer source anyway.


Geoff Manning

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