Tim Vaughan, Robert Mann, and Jerry Bromenshenk provided information
about bees' perception of weather changes.  Some might find interesting
some of Virgil's comments, about 50 B.C., in the Georgics (Book IV):

  "...At dawn they pour from the gates --- no loitering; again, when the
star of eve has warned them to withdraw from their pasture in the fields,
then they seek their homes....Nor yet, if rain impend, do they stray far
from their stalls, or trust the sky when eastern gales are near, but round
about, beneath the shelter of their city walls, draw water, and essay short
flights..."

                                                                        Adrian

Adrian M. Wenner                    (805) 963-8508 (home phone)
967 Garcia Road                     (805) 893-8062  (UCSB FAX)
Santa Barbara, CA  93106  [http://www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/index.htm]

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*    "We not only believe what we see:
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