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Title: Drunk Bees?
Post by: philinacoma on January 13, 2010, 04:01:51 PM
Hey,

I was standing there this morning watching the bees leave on their foraging journeys and began to wonder. When the bees fly out, they tend to fly in a sinusoidal path. Is this the bees measuring distance? Does each of these left-right motions equate to one gyration in the wiggle dance?

My first thought had been that they were just making adjustments to their flight path, or drunk  ;), but then I thought of the above.

Phil

Title: Re: Drunk Bees?
Post by: doak on January 13, 2010, 11:09:35 PM
Probably setting their directional finders. Orienting their self with the Sun in relation to their foraging source. They do do that you know. :)doak
Title: Re: Drunk Bees?
Post by: lenape13 on January 14, 2010, 12:45:42 PM
Or perhaps they have converted some of the honey into mead.  After all, do we REALLY know what they do in the hive after dark?   :roll: 8-) :-D
Title: Re: Drunk Bees?
Post by: philinacoma on January 15, 2010, 07:06:14 PM
All the more reason to rob them!  :-D