James C. Nieh is a Harvard Junior Fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He earned his B.A. in 1991 at Harvard and his Ph.D. in 1997 at Cornell University in the Section of Neurobiology and Behavior. The stingless-bee research reported in this paper was conducted as part of his doctoral dissertation. He held a postdoctoral fellowship from 1997-1998 at the University of Würzburg in the Lehrstuhl für Verhaltensphysiologie und Soziobiologie. His research focuses on honeybee and stingless-bee foraging communication systems. Address: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. Internet: nieh@oeb.harvard.edu