Ruth stated flatly:

> But, each individual scout naturally carries odors
> only from the specific site it had itself inspected.

I've asked before, but I'll try again, in hope of getting
an aactual answer rather than mere distain for daring to 
ask the question:

How does one "site" have a unique odor, different from all 
other sites?  Further, how does any bee somehow detect that 
specific and unique odor near the hive, and follow it to the 
site at issue?

> Why should honeybee-recruits need anything more than odor?

This is exactly like asking:
"Why should a tautology need anything more than itself?"  :)

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