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

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Robt Mann
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