Van,
Glad you enjoyed it.
Jim
I am still wading through that tome, Jim.
I read initially a lot about scutella and will look to see if that colours the whole work. For the moment I am struggling with the statements quoted below. Some references I may have read and largely forgotten, others I have yet to discover.
"Drone congregation areas were first observed in 1958 (Jean-Prost 1958), and
comparatively little is known about the determination of DCA locations considering our
advances in knowledge of other aspects of honey bee biology since that time. It
generally is believed that drones leave their colony flying towards a depression in the
horizon (Ruttner 1966) until they reach a vertical relief such as a tree line or building
(Zmarlicki and Morse 1963, Strang 1970). Tribe (1982) suggested the locations of DCAs
are based primarily on wind, stating that drones typically fly upwind until encountering a
turbulent area that could be caused by buildings or trees. Thus, DCAs typically occur at
breaks in the horizon like openings in forest areas, and along tree lines in fields (Ruttner
1985).
"
"1958" - yet it has to be a state secret, at least in this Country.
"comparitively"
"generally"
"suggested"
"could be"
There was talk here lately around archelogical dating of attifacts.
I got from it much the same I put here on this topic, show me verifiable facts
and I get interested. I have seen too many psuedoscience(sp?) declarations
around ancient times past - and the Universe - to form an understanding some
('science') individuals are very good at selling their imagination on a world stage.
In my paranoia the quoted extracted keywords above are early warning signs of
what is about to be presented. Suddenly under those 'caveats' all that follows
becomes "facts".
I shall pull on the wellies to wade through the 73 pages :-)))
Bill