414 COMMUNICATION AMONG BEES. 
10.55 a strange bee came. No. 11 returned to the 
honey regularly, and went on coming. 
October 13.—At 6.28 a.m. she came, but, as before, 
flew away again without alighting. 
At 6.32 she came to the honey. At 6.36 went away. 
6.42 5 9 6.46 53 
6.51 = 53 6.56 35 
7.10 3 35 7.14 5 
7.26 5 95 7.34 ns 
7.46 % 35 7.50 <5 
7.55 - is 8. 0 3 
8.12 35 99 8.15 5 
8.20 oe 35 8.26 3 
8.30 53 $5 8.33 - 
8.37 35 33 8.44 5 
8.50 a oi 8.56 > 
and so on. 
October14.—She came for the first time at 8.15 a.M., 
aud went on visiting the honey at the usual intervals. 
After this day I saw her no more; she had probably 
met with some accident. But these facts show that 
some bees, at any rate, do not communicate with their 
sisters, even if they find an untenanted comb full of 
honey, which to them would be a perfect Eldorado. 
This is the more remarkable because these bees began 
to work in the morning before the rest, and continued 
to do so even in weather which drove all the others 
into the shelter of the hive. That the few strange 
bees which I have recorded should have found the 
honey is natural enough, because there were a good 
many bees about in the room. My room, I may add, 
is on the first floor ; if it had been on the level of the 
ground I believe that many more bees would have found 
their way to the honey. 
I will now proceed to the similar observations made 
with wasps. 
