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Honeybees can Read!!!!
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Jean-Francois Lariviere <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:24:50 EDT
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Has anyone read their latest issue of Bee Culture?

Look at the Mailbox section and a letter from a chap in California mentions a
Belgian study of Honeybees.
His letter describes how scientists, using an electron microscope found
systematic etchings on the bottom of honeycomb cells. At first they thought
these marks were random, but after entering them into a super computer and
comparing them from many other hives, have identified an alphabet!

If anyone else knows more about this, please contact me. I want to validate
such an incredible story.

Jean-Francois Lariviere
BeeHealthy Farms, Inc.
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NY NY 10025

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