Hello fellow beekeepers.
    It is difficult for me to see anything written on this forum and skip it
without reading.
Some of the topics discussed are very interesting and worth the time and
effort. Others are questionable if they should be allowed to be included
because they simply do not contribute
to the well-being of beekeeping.
    Anyone who advocates that foraging honey bees will fly into areas where
there is a smaller or lesser number of bees, is that person saying that bees
avoid visiting areas where honey bees concentrate? If that is the case, that
person/s need a lesson in bee behavior.  All that person has
to do to test that theory is to spill a just a little bit of honey especially
during times of lack of flowers.
Or observe how honey bees behave around certain types of inflorence.  I have
seen honey bees
behave as if they were swarming when visiting certain types of tropical
plants.
    In essence, certain criteria might be judged according to mathematics and
statistics but I very seriously doubt that people who have worked with and
around honey bees would lend very much credence to such a theory.  My 60 plus
years working with honey bees tell me that the so much discussed "diffusion
theory" does not work with honey bees.
   Hence this subject should be considered by the moderators as one worth
omitting from the list.
Sincerely.
Dr. Pedro Pablo Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, Virginia and Madrid, Spain