Just thought I'd pass along that the Radio program
Earth & Sky did a little number on the bee dance.
http://www.earthsky.com/1997/es971117.html
 
and had some pointers to fun stuff:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Beekeeping/beedance.htm
 
My only question on reading it, though, was:
the article claims that bees can't see inside the hive.
I thought the biologists here said at one time or anohter that
they could by being able to see farther into the
infrared spectrum than we.
Someone else here also mentioned that bees would prefer to
build on some colors of combs and not others-
Do I remember correctly?
for what it's worth-
Phil Wood
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