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Ants and Bees

Nature volume 12, pages 25–26 (1875)Cite this article

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IN NATURE, vol. xi. p. 306, Mr. Alfred George Renshaw refers to and criticises a paper on “Ants and Bees,” lately read by Sir John Lubbock, and assumes, or seems to assume—and the language quoted justifies such assumption—that Sir John advanced the idea that bees have no means of communicating knowledge to each other.

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EMERY, J. Ants and Bees. Nature 12, 25–26 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012025c0

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