Hello fellow beekeepers. It is difficult for me to see anything written on this forum and skip it without reading. Some of the topics discussed are very interesting and worth the time and effort. Others are questionable if they should be allowed to be included because they simply do not contribute to the well-being of beekeeping. Anyone who advocates that foraging honey bees will fly into areas where there is a smaller or lesser number of bees, is that person saying that bees avoid visiting areas where honey bees concentrate? If that is the case, that person/s need a lesson in bee behavior. All that person has to do to test that theory is to spill a just a little bit of honey especially during times of lack of flowers. Or observe how honey bees behave around certain types of inflorence. I have seen honey bees behave as if they were swarming when visiting certain types of tropical plants. In essence, certain criteria might be judged according to mathematics and statistics but I very seriously doubt that people who have worked with and around honey bees would lend very much credence to such a theory. My 60 plus years working with honey bees tell me that the so much discussed "diffusion theory" does not work with honey bees. Hence this subject should be considered by the moderators as one worth omitting from the list. Sincerely. Dr. Pedro Pablo Rodriguez Virginia Beach, Virginia and Madrid, Spain