Hi All
 
Today I worked through my best hives, (peaceful ones) and noticed the
bees were pretty stupid in their asumtions - eg thinking often that I
was the beehive because I was wearing a white tee shirt and dark
shorts, and trying to find a hive entrance near my pants (potential
ouch factor there).
 
Aggressive hives in a nearby apiary do not have this problem, and
never make mistakes like that. So that led me to think that maybe I
am breeding for short sighted bees and not gentle tempered bees at
all. They just don't realise that that big pink arm and face are
mixing up their lives because they can't see very far? And maybe the
angry bees follow me and attack me unprovoked because they have good
sight?
 
Has anybody ever done an work on bees eyesight?
 
(considering that a hive is basically the offspring of about 20
individuals mixied with one individuals genes, if lots of these bees
in the ratio need sight enhancers, then maybe one could get a
technically short sighted hive??)
 
Just a thought.
 
Keep well
 
Garth
 
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Garth Cambray       Camdini Apiaries
15 Park Road        Apis melifera capensis
Grahamstown         800mm annual precipitation
6139
Eastern Cape
South Africa               Phone 27-0461-311663
 
On holiday for a few months     Rhodes University
Which means: working with bees 15 hours a day!
Interests: Fliis and bees
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