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When a swarm of bees separates from an established colony, it does not go at once to a new home. Most swarms settle on a bush or tree, and form themselves into buzzing balls with the queen in the center. After hours or days of debating, the swarm makes up...
In Nature, Dr. M. Lindauer of the University of Munich tells how bees reach their decision. Prosperous colonies send out swarms when nectar is plentiful and storage cells are full of honey. A few days before the emotional orgy that results in swarming, forager bees have been returning to the...
While the swarming excitement rises, the house-hunting scouts start making their reports. They do it by a stylized dance, just as honey scouts report their finds of nectar-yielding flowers. Dr. Lindauer marked bees that he found poking into crannies, and later watched them making their reports. The direction...
Although no other eastern team is using gloves, McCurdy said that the idea has bees tried before. "Several coaches attempted to use rubber surgeon's gloves but found that they were too tight and slippery. So we tried cotton gloves and they seem to have worked out quite well."
The Watery Mind. At this, "a number of bees quietly biding their time in the national bonnet sprang to life with an angry hum." Everyone, including the canon, knows that the nuns did skip over fires on Midsummer Eve, but this is nothing to the big fact that no Englishman...