>The key here seems to be "panoramically" - the landscape has to change in a
>significant way. 

Jim,  thanks for the link,  interesting read!   If you look close at the
methods though  they ended up caging the bees in the new hive for a 3 day
period   while it clearly shows the bees are very capable,  to me it still
leaves open a huge question of how to teach them they need to relearn.


It may be a small issue for most,  but it seems to me if there are simple
things we as pollinators of summer crops can do,  then we should.   I don't
notice the loss on hives that have been opn a truck from CA for 3 days,  but
when we do that the weather is dramatically different than our summer
pollinations which range from melons as few as 5 miles apart,  to
cranberries that are a day trip.(500 miles)  My local cohort  turns his
entrance  alternating between north south, and east west for example.  




Charles

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