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> Another is to put up a helium balloon
> with some queen pheromone on it
> and the drones will come to that.
Gard Otis and Cynthia Scott-Dupree did this for a large group of us at EAS
2002 at Ithaca NY (and Aaron Morris took on the thankless task of organizing
and provisioning that year's "short course" in the 3 days preceding the
conference).
We wandered about the grounds of the Dyce Bee Lab with a pheromone lure on a
balloon, and the sound of the drones banging into the balloon was plainly
audible to all. Impressive.
> Dr. Chip Taylor also feels that he
> can predict in a landscape where
> DCAs will be located.
And he's right - he can. He's talked about this more than once, and his
work on "breaks in the terrain" is likely a good reason why we still have
zero success on getting queens mated in Manhattan and the uber-urbanized
parts of Brooklyn and Queens, while hives in Yonkers and points north have
normal queen mating. The man-made "terrain" simply does not create enough
space for a definitive "break in the tree line" type of feature, the
buildings create turbulence for a distance of roughly 7x their height in
their lee, and the rivers are wide and windy enough for sailing regattas
from Sandy Hook/Breezy Point to well north of the City. (So much for my
hopes of breeding and selling "Queens Queens - Bees so tough they don't just
sting you, they also take your wallet".)
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