Hi Jim,

> The pay off is that if the current "favorite" nectar source
> dries up, the bees coming back from sorties to other sources
> will then have the "best" trade off between distance and
> nectar sugar content,

Still sounds to me that the bees will go "Only as far as they have to."

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