Al Boehm wrote: >I realize that bees dont hear This widely-believed factoid seems to have been based on failure to discover any organ of hearing. That failure does not prove the animal can't hear; it is a minor classic in the arrogance of science. I will simply assert that the behaviour of a typical colony early in an ordinary inspection strongly suggests to me that the animal can hear (as one would expect in a house with such low light levels, notwithstanding the superior sense of smell which must also be very useful in there). And wasn't bees' hearing established scientifically a half-decade ago? R - Robt Mann consultant ecologist P O Box 28878 Remuera, Auckland 1005, New Zealand (9) 524 2949