Hi all

Richard said...

> Are you sure it was the strap and not the watch itself?

With hindsight and not originally paying that much attention, I guess around
the edges of the watch, but not the glass itself. A greater density of
activity on the strap than the watch, but I would not guess any numbers.

>  Is it possible the bees can detect the frequency
>  used to control the watch?

If you are talking about battery powered watches I think this is unlikely on
two counts as the xtal oscilator runs at a handful of MHz and the power
involved is very low indeed, so any radiated signal would be difficult for
any system to detect.

A ticking clockwork watch can be heard at many feet in favourable conditions
(by humans that is), I am not sure what the effect would be on the hairs on
the bee's exoskeleton, I guess pretty small.

A surprising amount of traffic for a trivial topic!


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