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Further experiments on the drifting of honey-bees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. B. Free  and
Yvette Spencer-Booth
J. B. Free
Affiliation:
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts.
Yvette Spencer-Booth
Affiliation:
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts.
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1. Worker bees learnt the colour of their hive in the close vicinity to their hive entrance and took little or no notice of colours above the lower brood chamber. They orientated to a colour below the entrance more than to a colour above. They did not learn combinations of colours.

2. They distinguished between certain symbols placed immediately above the hive entrance.

3. They learnt the height of their hive and the height of its entrance above ground.

4. More worker bees and drones from queenright colonies drifted to queenless than to queenright colonies. Drones expelled from queenright colonies did not drift to queenless colonies.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , October 1961 , pp. 153 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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