--- allen dick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


> My guess was that the higher density of better
> pollination may have been due
> to the fact that honey bees were orienting to the
> huts and using them for
> reference, not necessarily to the activity of the
> leaf-cutters!

An interesting supplemental research would have been
to put other 'dummy' landmarks including unpopulated
huts and then see what the pollination range would
have been.  If there had been similar denser
pollination plots around those other, nonpopulated,
landmarks that would have been an eye opener.

Mike in Alabama






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