ABSTRACT
Red clover is normally fertilized by bumble bees, and does not set seed without fertilization. Bumble bees are not common enough to fertilize an area of an acre or more of red clover. When the flower or the sugar-water is placed within fifty yards of the hive, bees fly out in all directions to visit flowers or dishes with the same smell. Von Frisch has discovered how the information is conveyed. If the food is within fifty yards the finder always dances round and round. Bees do not find much nectar there, but in their searches they carry pollen from one flower to another. Phylosophical importance is like that of the young lady in Shaw's Back to Methusaleh who emerges from an egg talking perfect Shavian English. However some birds have to learn a good deal of their language. It is also clear that bees have an amazing sense of direction.
