To Waldig,

Sugar water has no odor, provided you use perfectly clean dishes, pure
water, pure sugar, packed in bags made of paper chemically treated to
destroy all odor-traces. The experiences you describe, did not involve any
such uncontaminated sugar water.

Why should honeybee-recruits need anything more than odor? Flying insects in
general, including solitary insects, can find sources of attractive odors in
the field by use of nothing other than odors. Why should honeybee-recruits
not be able to do the same?

Scouts certainly carry back to the swarm the odors of the prospective
nest-site they inspected. But, each individual scout naturally carries odors
only from the specific site it had itself inspected.

Sincerely,
Ruth Rosin ("Prickly pear")

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