At 05:03 PM 7/11/1998 -0700, Andy wrote:
 
 
>I ain't got no systems other then the seat of my pants and the end of my
>noise. When I am working the bees bent over a hive and a bee comes out and
>lands tail up on the end of my noise
 
Glad to see Andy rise to the bait.  Yes, you don't need fancy electronics
to learn a lot about bees.  The electronics simply allow us to refine some
of these observations.
 
And no, I don't have the answers.  At this point, I simply know that saying
that the bees rush home due to changes in barometric pressure is an overly
simplistic assumption that doesn't hold up when you can see the actual
responses of bees correlated with weather.
 
>I don't know nothing but I would suggest any environmental measurement of
>bee flight would require some additional information I have not found on
>your sight
 
Actually, light is measured.  We do not have an Alpha system on the
observation hive, but do have an Alpha System on our 28 research hives.
Our weather station doesn't include light intensity.  The Alpha system
covers this information plus hive temperatures, weight changes, RH, etc.
One of these days, we will add an Alpha system to our observation hive.
 
 
And yes Andy, we do have electronic hives at different elevations and in
different parts of the country.  We don't post all of this to the web - we
doubt that most beekeepers want to look at hundreds of Mb of data per day.
 
We can make this information available to those who want to work with it.
 
Jerry
Jerry J. Bromenshenk, Ph.D.
Director, DOE/EPSCoR & Montana Organization for Research in Energy
The University of Montana-Missoula
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