Now for an off-beat question. It has been my impression that honeybees foraging from their hive tend NOT to visit flowers very close to the hive! Has anyone else had this same impression? Does anyone know of any data on the intensity of bee visits to flowers from very close to, and away from hives? I am wondering if there is a graph (or some thing similar) which shows distance from the hive on the horizontal axis and intensity of visits on the vertical axis, but starts say 0.5 metres from the hive and then goes out. If my impression is correct, which seems unlikely, then there should be a narrow zone of relatively lower intensity of bee activity close to the hive, and a peak at some distance away, falling off slowly with increasing distance to zero far away. Any thoughts would be most appreciated. Thanks, Peter Kevan, U of Guelph, Canada.