In message <[log in to unmask]>, CharlesW <[log in to unmask]> writes >Individual bees "sleep" or at least are dormant in some manner for periods >of time. But, the colony as a whole never sleeps. There is always activity. >They have to keep working ... they have literally thousands of babies to >take care of ... no time to sleep! In studies showing bees' intermittent inactivity for a total of about 8 hours per day (interesting coincidence) the bees' internal activity is AFAIK not monitored. Since wax making and brood food generation goes on between feeding on honey/pollen it seems reasonable to suppose that stillness may well mean glands working hard to produce said results. So, stillness may well not mean sleeping as we know it. -- James Kilty