>Sure they do - the "round dance" is used
for all sources that are very close to
the hive.<
Thanks Jim,
I didn't know this. That's what I get for making things up as I go along. Still, it's a little hard to see how they would work in a direction (in the dance) as straight up, since the dances seem to apply to the flat earth. Not much nectar in the sky. Sometimes I think they find a feeder on top of another hive faster. Also there seems to be no consistancy about which hives will find and use the feeder. On a recent Bee-l thread (I think) a couple of bigger 'keepers agreed that not taking the feed was a sign that there was something wrong with the hive; that it was time to check further. Also that the temperature of the FEED had been raised by the hives that took it! Perhaps a hive needs to be healthy enough to create the thermogenesis need for this?
Dickm
[This message has been edited by dickm (edited October 30, 2004).]