There will be a mention of bees on the telly tonight:
BBC1 9pm
See also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rqgh4
Doris
There will be a mention of bees on the telly tonight:
BBC1 9pm
See also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rqgh4
Doris
Watched a little of it - remarkable footage from the inside of a hive. I confess I had no idea that some bees have the job of heater bees and others don't. The infra red footage seemed to make it clear though.
Gerry
I, too, watched the bee bit. Was a little confused by some of the claims. For example the first hot bee they showed was doing a waggle dance, surely indicating that it was a forager passing on info about a good source of nectar, rather than a bee that had never left the hive (and apparently never would?). Of course it would be hot, having just flown back full of high-octane nectar! (Must be similar to returning from a 5k run and walking straight into a centrally-heated house!)
heheh, I wrote almost the exact same thing on another forum.
I did also wonder about the claim that brood raised on one temperature was destined to be a house bee, those on another would become foragers, that pretty much flies in the face of accepted wisdom, as I understand it at least.
Indeed, Nellie, but the information was being put forward by a celebrity, so it must be true!
You miserable lot!
You can't expect things to be 100% spot on in a programme like this. I thought that the infrared footage was really interesting, the comments are of course up to discussion.
By the way, does anybody know why Richard Hammond wears a safety harness and rope for opening a beehive?
If you have missed it you can watch it on the BBCiplayer (scroll to 38 minutes if you are not interested in the rest):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._Out_of_Sight/
Doris
Thanks for the link Doris.
The BBC must have made him wear the harness as the hive was on a little flat roof and he could have plunged to his death if chased by a killer bee.
Did you notice how the bees inside the hive were Carniolans yet outside when foraging they were Italians!
They should sack the continuity director.
May I be the first to suggest that the programme would have been more suitably titled - Eric the heater bee.
Now you can watch those hot bees again on infrared camera:
http://www.hobos.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/preview/
Doris
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