BEES AS MESSENGERS
NOVEL ’EXPERIMENT (Received April 21, 3 p.m.) BERLIN, April‘2o. Emulating the Australian aborigines' method of findipg tiopey trees by gummipg puff d» bees’ hpdies, tnajung their homeward ‘flight ,fegseri}).le, : 'g, apialogist, Herr Berhard Guelder, with a view, tq sending a message in war time, kucdessfuHy employed bees to con,vey messages minutely \yritten on the unest"‘paper attached to their backs. The chance of interception .of such , messages was less than with carrier pigeons.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18378, 21 April 1934, Page 15
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75BEES AS MESSENGERS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18378, 21 April 1934, Page 15
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