Hi Joćo
> I wonder if the bee tracking devices, like the ones used by Joe Riley
> and Jerry Bromenshenk in their experiments, wouldn't be of great help
> to clarify things about open matings.
I don't think the current generation of such tracking devices would help
much in this respect. Give them a boost in frequency by about ten and
use much bigger dishes would increase range and reduce the load on the bee.
But we really need video info close in to the action and for that I can
envisage a video camera carrying model aircraft of neutral buoyancy
(helium balloons) positioned by electric fans, guided by remote control
that can be flown to follow the action.
I do not think that such a craft would be difficult or expensive to
fabricate and it would provide thousands of hours of video for geeks
like me to watch/study.
Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman or http://www.dave-cushman.net
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