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Show Tracing Bees in Australia. Some interesting facts concerning native bee hunters come from Australia. Aus-tralia. Wild bees' nests are usually well hidden, and, the flight of the bees being be-ing too fast for the eye to follow, the aborigines have devised various igenl-, ous methods of tracing them. One way Is to watch the bees gathering gath-ering pollen, and then, when n honey-laden honey-laden bee alights on a flower, to place a piece of white feather-down, moistened mois-tened with gum. on the underside of Its body. The native eye can then follow fol-low the bee's homeward Journey. ' A white beekeeper on the south coast of New South Wales Is little behind be-hind the natives in cunning. His method meth-od is to watch bees drinking at a pool. If they fly away slowly, and at no great height, he knows that a nest Is close at hand ; if they fly fast and high the nest Is likely to be miles away. 1 , |