Well, that sounds familiar. (May be old news to some of you)
Steve Taber or somebody else at the Tucson BeeLab showed us once
what happens when you put a mirror on the ground in the bees'
flight path - the bees see it as a reflection of the sky and land
upside down, then get up and fly away - They said this was the
reason that flatboat mobile apiaries had been tried and then
discounted as a usable idea. They just run out of bees.
- John Edwards
On Fri Apr 04 08:57:02 CDT 2008, Bob Harrison
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I personally do not believe the bees are leaving as a swarm in
> the cases I have looked at. One of the most curious was in a
> remote area of Florida near the everglades national park. Most of
> the hives were empty of bees and the bees were found about 200
> feet east of the hives in the water. Kind of like the bees
> followed the wrong path home.
>
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