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Re: Peter Kevans' obs on foraging distance.
While doing some observations this past summer, with tagged bees in a small
nuc amongst a field of blooming white clover, I found that bees do forager tho
se flowers close to the hive, I even noticed that some bees that cannot fly(due
to experimental manipulation) even jumped flower from flower right near the en
trance (I recorded about 5 bees doing this)! although I am not sure if given
a choice bees would choose the further one, which seems to be counterintuitive
(that is,to human's intuitive, of course).
Zhiyong Huang, Univ. of Illinois.
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