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Yoon Sik Kim <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:41:15 -0400
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Despite their “areal fidelity” (“a strong tendency to forage at the 
nearest source for each floral species in the area”), “Eckert (1933) 
observed that bees from hives placed in a desert will fly as much as 13.7 
kilometers to a food source if no other sources are closer to the hive” 
and that they “have a tendency to fly in only one or two major lines of 
flight [like Interstate Highways], neglecting similar forage plants in 
other directions” (The Hive and the Honey Bee 318).

Yoon

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