May 12, 2005
Zoologist Karl von Frisch
proposed in the 1960s that honeybees use dance as a complex means of communication - particularly as to the locations of pollen-laden flowers. While accepted in general (and this is what we were all told at school, yeah?), the theory was not accepted by many scientists. Now, via the use of radar, Frisch has been proven dead right.
seen @ Robot Wisdom
Wow, cool.
Take me to your nectar!
How do they hook up TV to that antenna I wonder? Must have iddybiddy fingers.
This is cool. One of my friends did her Ph.D. thesis work on orientation flights in bees; they use local landmarks and motion parallax to locate specific targets so that they can comunicate the food information to other bees. I hadn't ever realized that the waggle dance was a debated theory; As far as I was aware, all the work in honeybee navigation was on the other end of the flight. The courses I took never really talked about anything other than von Frisch's theory; the issues with his ideas were never brought up.
weeee've got a thaang,
that's-a called radar bee-heee!
Weeee've got a light in the skyyyyyy . . .
radar bee
Heh...petebest I love that song.
Actually I emailed this story to a MeFite who shoots bees at spiders for his PhD.
That's fucking sadistic.
Shoots bees at spiders? Why? Is it a smart weapon, or is he just trying to improve his aim?
shoots bees at spiders?!
Is he working on developing the dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at you?
Tell the truth I can't rightly remember what/why he does what he does....ummm........a link perhaps....2 secs..
Well, this demonstrates his fetish if not the required detail anyways. (I think he's looking at web making -- patterns or whatnot; again, I'm not sure what the bees do. I've met him and he prolly told me but...welllllll)
SO in other words, the whole shooting-bees-at-the-arachnid business is not crucial to his study at all! He's just doing it out of some twisted pleasure!
Some small QT clips of dancing bees.
I object! There's no evidence the bees enjoy that kind of thing.
Radar...is there anything it can't do?
He certainly can't get Hawkeye and Trapper John to put down their martinis.
mct wins!
Bees dance the flight paths to the flowers
and in so doing, may spend happy hours --
but the lives of workers who fly from the hive
are brief -- frequent flying tears bees' wings to shreds
yet flight I think is more exciting than making beebread*
* = what bee larvae are fed by worker bees
Um. the bee shooter would be me. Actually, now i've improved: i just make them go through hoops. All for the sake of science, i swear.
You are a sadist!!!11!
That dhruva and his dancing spiders!
I'm working on a related idea: the Beesaber. Cool part is you don't have to make the sound effects with your mouth.
Mwwummm....mwummwummm...mwarrrrrrrrummm...
Let's shoot beeswacky at sandspider!
Pointless -- a drone has no sting.
bees, that was a really good Tom Swiftie!
Bees are all humbugs ... our tragedy as a species.
welcome back, bees! :)
*does waggle dance at RalphTheDog*
... when a bee apparently flew into his window and distracted him ...
Presumably, this bee flew in rather into his window, I'd think.
Ah, we're such handsome devils, we
drones, folk can't keep from gazing bee
-musedly at the beauty of we.
I think your handsome
yes, YOU, Bee
I think you're cuter
than the Squeeeeee
*giggles tee hee and runs away
Wildfires are dangerous
When bees get derangerous
But smoke gets their knickers all twizzly
They'll sting in confusion
Amidst the profusion
Of water drops, axes and grizzlies.
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(A bee sticking his tongue out? Okay, I'm no roryk . . )
the nitwit who says we should
be honey [space] bees
is simply blowing hot air
in scientificese
honeybee (without a space)
goes back to thirteen sixty-six
like honeysweet and honeycomb
this word needs no new tricks
Tales of the Hive
As the nectar is converted it also is evaporated, resulting in an extremely low moisture content. This is the secret of honey's success. Honey is so dry that bacteria that land on its surface are torn apart for the moisture inside. There isn't much that can live on honey once it is properly condensed and that gives rise to many of its uses.
Interlestink.
For this reason, in the middle ages honey was often used to dress wounds.
Bee sniffing bombs, which CNN reported on their homepage today, even though H-dogg had the scoop 2 months ago.
Bees are cool. I wish I had a place I could keep bees. Underpants are not working out.
Bee-fouled!
CNN reported on their homepage today, even though H-dogg had the scoop 2 months ago.
This just in!
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A mighty farmer is the bee
A swarm of dusty intensity
A fading winter's industry,
A jug of wine for thou -
And me?
A slice of bread with honey
(Yo, bitch, gimme my money.)
At the Sacramento Bee, no less.
awesome. Sunbathing is ritualistic for my species too.
Bugging out on Homeland Security
A small British biotechnology firm called Inscentinel is employing the finely tuned olfactory system of bees to sniff for explosives.
with a fine graphic to boot.
You've heard of the canary in the coal mine: In the presence of poisonous gas, the bird will sway or drop dead, alerting miners to get out.
Now researchers have learned that the collective buzzing of honeybees can provide a similar biological alert.
But unlike canaries, bees can differentiate between chemicals and will produce different sounds based on what toxin they detect, scientists say.
Bees never fail to impress.
Bees rule(s).
From the comments in the link:
How is this project any less cruel than the systematic beating of Elephants in Circuses in order to ‘train them’ to ‘perform’ ?
I think that's going a bit far. But I'll admit it's a bit silly for my taste (having been around pompous product designers far-too long). Nevertheless, interesting concept.
Yeah that's going way too far. Sheesh.
I mean, just ask a bee.
An ancient Israeli site yields the oldest known archaeological example of beekeeping
Neat! Mr. BlueHorse tried to salvage some bees that were in an old footlocker. The big bosses wanted to call in HazMat teams to spray them with insecticide, so he 'disappeared' them last fall. Unfortunately, over the winter the comb collapsed, and killed the queen. :( If we ever get lucky enough to find more wild bees, we now have a hive built. (lots of dovetailing to put together!)
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