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IN his recent paper on “Ants and Bees,” Sir John Lubbock is reported to have said—alluding to the bees which had tasted the honey he had set for them:—
“If bees had the means of communicating knowledge, no doubt these bees would have told the others in the hive where they could obtain a good store of honey with very little trouble, and would have brought a lot back with them.”
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RENSHAW, A. Ants and Bees. Nature 11, 306–307 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011306c0
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