At 10:58 PM 5/29/02 -0500, you wrote:

Sorry, that's not the source, just a repeat of the off-told assertation.
I've seen these estimates for 30+ years, so you're going to have to dig
deeper.

>I just found the source for that factoid.  The PBS Nova program (it's run
>twice that I know of) has details and a transcript on the Internet.  Here's
>the fact page: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/buzz.html
>They quote their source thus: Maureen Dolan, NOVA Online's intern, worked
>with a bee researcher from the University of Massachusetts Boston in the
>summer of 1998.
>