Bill Truesdell wrote:

> ... there was an interesting computer simulation
> done several years ago which had the workers randomly placing honey and
> pollen into cells on a frame as well as the queen laying randomly. The
> simulation included pulling pollen and honey to feed brood and bees and
> the normal brood cycle. When the simulation finally reached a stable
> state, the frame had the classic brood/pollen/honey pattern of what we
> would call a good laying queen.

That program was written by Dr. Scott Camazine (Penn. State) while he was still at
Cornell, and was based on observation of actual honeybee behavior in an observation
hive.  I think we still have a copy - though I don't know whether we still have a
machine it'll run on...  Always thought it'd make a good screen saver...
Kathy