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WASP STUDIES AFIELD 



TABLE A. 

 Homing of queens. 



*To valley below. 



With the workers, the results are quite different. 



Of 112 workers that were used, only 28 returned, and 

 those which returned did so only in the short flights. The 

 long distance tests always gave negative results. Let us 

 go into detail in regard to these 112 workers, and the 28 

 that returned home in this lot. Out of the 17 new workers 

 that were experimented upon, none returned; of the 33 old 

 workers, 14 came back; of the 62 workers of unknown age, 

 14 returned. According to the law of chance, it is easily 

 possible that these 14 out of 62 workers of unknown age 

 may have been old ones. The last four columns show that 



