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xfire7
Whilst standing on my back step having a smoke (only tobacco ) I happened to notice a bee visiting a plant , so you say? Well I had noticed bees visiting the plant earlier. I have read that bees see different frequencies of light at different times of day , thus making them rotate through all plant species. I leaped for my PC and googled changing light frequencies and I arrived here.
I read a piece about somebody who was experimenting with something and his question was "how do I change the frequency of light"? One of the answers said changing the gravity field.
Is it possible that the bees due to some sort of gravity variation are blinded to any other plants than blue which this bee was visiting? Are they simply dying of malnutrition?
flyingbuttressman
QUOTE (xfire7+Jun 14 2012, 11:21 AM)
I read a piece about somebody who was experimenting with something and his question was "how do I change the frequency of light"? One of the answers said changing the gravity field.
Is it possible that the bees due to some sort of gravity variation are blinded to any other plants than blue which this bee was visiting?

Sorry, but that has nothing to do with bees. There is not enough gravity variation on the surface of the earth to have any effect whatsoever on bees' ability to see.
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Are they simply dying of malnutrition?

As you can see here, there are many possible causes, and the debate rages on.
Mekigal
Immune suppression . That is interesting . I think it is similar to human cancer .
Very interesting . A weaken immune system . Diet could contribute to that . That would be more than likely with the data that shows healthy colony with the same conditions as sick colony. I would think they would cross check to find out . The diet of the same pesticide levels healthy and not health. See if the diet is the same for both .

You never know cause so many groups don't talk to each other . 2 brain cells left and they don't communicate kind of thing . Surely they would . Wouldn't they ?

Got to go . I want to stay and play , but Maria calls my name . Hope she keeps her flirting down . I don't know how much more of her sexiness I can take. Hot Sizzle ! Stop it Maria . What are we going to do about Maria ?

Latter
xfire7
Thanks for that link to the debate, interestingly it did say this :-

The effects of EMR upon biological systems (and also to many other chemical systems, under standard conditions) depends both upon the radiation's power and frequency. For lower frequencies of EMR up to those of visible light (i.e., radio, microwave, infrared), the damage done to cells and also to many ordinary materials under such conditions is determined mainly by heating effects, and thus by the radiation power. By contrast, for higher frequency radiations at ultraviolet frequencies and above (i.e., X-rays and gamma rays) the damage to chemical materials and living cells by EMR is far larger than that done by simple heating, due to the ability of single photons in such high frequency EMR to damage individual molecules chemically.

Is the damaging end of the spectrum present in solar flares?
flyingbuttressman
QUOTE (xfire7+Jun 14 2012, 01:09 PM)
Is the damaging end of the spectrum present in solar flares?

Solar flares don't contain any kind of EMR that's not already coming from the sun. The content of Solar Flares that make it to Earth is mostly charged particles, which don't make it beyond our upper atmosphere (Aurora Borealis/Northern Lights).
Mekigal
QUOTE (flyingbuttressman+Jun 14 2012, 05:17 PM)
Solar flares don't contain any kind of EMR that's not already coming from the sun. The content of Solar Flares that make it to Earth is mostly charged particles, which don't make it beyond our upper atmosphere (Aurora Borealis/Northern Lights).

Your flirting now . My new name Aurora . Yeah that is what Eskimos say bout Me . They say I live there . Don't that get all ! I didn't say it . They did . They say I took a 3 year olds spirit that was sacrificed 11,000 years ago. That I live in the Aurora because of it . Where it is warm all the time and there is no cold snow . Can you believe that stuff ?
Something about it is kind of strange though . I think my father killed Me when I was baby and well i am the spirit that took the dead babies body . That be why I can't relate . Why it all seems so mixed up *** backwards , Or it could be the world is just *** backwards and all mixed up and I am normal .
So Yeah when I was about 1 or so in Alaska , Lad Airforce Base to be exact my father beat me for crying . He beat me until I stopped crying . That is all I know except the hints of Me being kept at the hospital for an unknown reason at the same time that no one will talk about . The Base Hospital that is . The Base that dealt with classified government covert operations of the day that is .
So I think my charley browness is related . How to over come that and become a real human is my plight . Not to be strange to others . Not to scare people so much as I normally do . I don't want to scare people . You know what it like to people always afraid of you ? Not a good feeling and it is nothing like the mythological thing called love . So well *** it who cares

O.K.O.K. I know bees and the blotted epidemic . 1 in four people will get cancer and that rate is going up too . You think there is a correlation ? Could it be more weighted to environmental concerns than given credit for due to best practice ideology of an economic engine that rules the day in human systems ?And I mean weighted in a negative way. To Prop up cronyism partial to the human race .

Did my best hippie girl
Mekigal
QUOTE (Guest+Jun 15 2012, 01:06 AM)
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i am and every ones a lubril until they prove otherwise . K.Y. is fun . Who knew?

I thought it was more like Vaseline . Not . The Hershey highway is not near as bad with K.Y, sensitive.
sreehc ! em no eno evah

jorgea
It would be interesting to see what actually is causing bees to react differently with certain environments.
alex345
QUOTE (flyingbuttressman+Jun 14 2012, 05:17 PM)
Solar flares don't contain any kind of EMR that's not already coming from the sun. The content of Solar Flares that make it to Earth is mostly charged particles, which don't make it beyond our upper atmosphere (Aurora Borealis/Northern Lights).

I got a feeling that some how EMF and Scalar waves are also responsible for the death of Bees. as they are so harmful for human beings they must hurt them as well. aany ideas. ???
mahesh10
ya surely. most of the animals can see what humans can't. and detect environmental anomalies pretty quickly than humans
MDT
This past year, I noticed that the number of bees was variable and dependent on which flowers were around. The bees did not go after every type of flower at the same rate, with many flowers ignored.

The flowers that did the best were the early summer flowers which also attracted butterflies and hummingbirds. It was interesting to see dozens of butterflies and bees working side-by-side. They were all polite to each other even after bumping into each other. The bees were not aggressive.

But once those flowers were gone, the bees were much more sparse. The bees returned again in larger numbers near the end of the summer, along with butterflies and light brown and beige wasps. They were all going after a white variant of a hydrangea looking shrub, with fragrant but sparse flowers. This drew the largest swarm of butterflies, so maybe the bees use them as a cue.

Capracus
Bug resurrection.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....0-years-2009-06
VioletSilence
QUOTE (flyingbuttressman+Jun 14 2012, 03:37 PM)
Sorry, but that has nothing to do with bees. There is not enough gravity variation on the surface of the earth to have any effect whatsoever on bees' ability to see.



Respect but:

Impossible in science Means impossible!! wink.gif

UK: Researchers have argued that bees’ ‘dances’ – which they perform on the hive’s honeycomb in order to provide other bees with directions to flowers – contain more mistakes if they dance while they are horizontal, due to gravity.
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The researchers realized that sometimes, the bees' dances are more variable. If the bee is trying to signal to others to head 20 degrees from the sun, they will sometimes signal 18, then 22, then 19 and maybe 23, but the average will be 20.
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When bees signaled angles close to the horizon, like 90 or 270 degrees, they seemed to have much more trouble staying on point than when walking directly up or down. The researchers think that horizontal angles are more difficult because the bees need to work against gravity to stay in a straight line.

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