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>The mechanism is as follows. Bees complete patrols in random
>locations...
Thanks for that, Pete. Very interesting.
It answers some questions, but also raises more than it answers.
I suppose I should pull out my Winston and take a look. There is probably
something in there on the topic.
Anyhow, I am thinking at this point of my bees with not much to do. They
are in winter, and clustered tightly much of the time, loosely some of the
time, and flying on the occasional warm, still day. (like this one - http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/images/2011/IMG560.jpg )
What brought me to wondering this is that I had some Apivar strips in
to satisfy those who suggested that I should do a finishing treatment
to establish the efficacy of my repeated oxalic evaporation treatments
done previously. (That question of computing efficacy is a whole'nother
problem.)
Anyhow, the action of these strips is dependant on the bees brushing
on the strips and other bees brushing on the bees that brushed on the
strips and so on and so on. I asked myself, what if there is very little bee
movement in the colony? The propogation of the active ingredient would
be slower, possibly very much slower, than expected.
That is why the question cam up, but I have often wondered before
when I have been observing the difering ways that bees occupy combs
and boxes at differing time.
I'm still not convinced that in stable times, that each bee does not have
a home address, the young ones downtown where the action is, middle
age in the suburbs...
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