There are a few historical accounts of bees orientating to a moving Location. In your opinion,,, Is it possible for bees to do this? I'm inclined to believe bees can do this, provided the movement is at a measured pace, and slow enough. There is an account of bees anticipating the new location of a moving 'feeding station' being moved at measured intervals, this would be cool to see, if anyone has this manuscript. The first article relating to bees orientating to a moving location is said to have originally appeared in the London Times in 1830. ... As a small vessel was proceeding up the channel from the coast of Cornwall and running near the land, some of the sailors observed a swarm of bees on an island; they steered for it, landed, and took the bees on board; succeeded in hiving them immediately, and proceeded on their voyage; as they sailed along the shore, the bees constantly flew from the vessel to the land, to collect honey, and returned again to their moving hive; and this was continued all the way up the channel. —Western Rural. Another is dated to 1927 ....A liner, the Tintagel Castle, left Cape Town some years ago, on her way to England, and when well out at sea it was found that a swarm of bees had hidden in the cargo. These rose and settled on a ventilator and one of the handy men fixed up a rough hive in which the swarm took up their abode. A week later, early one morning, the swarm left the hive, rose into the air and winged their way to the east. At the time the steamer was passing the Cape Verde Islands, but these were not within sight when the bees left the steamer. Yet in some mysterious way the insects knew that land was within flying distance.... Best Wishes, Joe Waggle http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles/ *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm