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Beekeeping => Bee News => Topic started by: Perry on March 15, 2015, 12:39:46 pm

Title: Citizen Scientists?
Post by: Perry on March 15, 2015, 12:39:46 pm

 Citizen Scientists? Careful reading may suggest otherwise. ;)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bees-go-online-to-build-the-buzz-on-their-health-1.2960909

Title: Re: Citizen Scientists?
Post by: pistolpete on March 15, 2015, 09:02:10 pm

Only $400 for a plywood top bar hive? Somebody pinch me, because that's just too good to be true :)  Would be interesting to find out how they keep the sensors from getting propolised.  IMO those guys are playing on peoples emotions, getting crown sourced money for a bogus solution to a problem that multiple universities are already studying.

Title: Re: Citizen Scientists?
Post by: Perry on March 15, 2015, 09:35:50 pm

It was this that had me scratching my head.
"When the colony is preparing to swarm, the queen makes a ‘piping’ sound," wrote Smith in an email.

Title: Re: Citizen Scientists?
Post by: tecumseh on March 16, 2015, 07:13:18 am

welll of course Perry some time she will but then again a queen will some times pipe for quite unknown reason.  on occasion I have concluded that some queens just like to gossip with their daughters.

sounds to me like a story that someone with a journalism degree stitched together without knowing anything at all about any of the parts of the story. 

Title: Re: Citizen Scientists?
Post by: Bakersdozen on March 16, 2015, 10:32:16 am

Quote from: tecumseh on March 16, 2015, 07:13:18 am

welll of course Perry some time she will but then again a queen will some times pipe for quite unknown reason.  on occasion I have concluded that some queens just like to gossip with their daughters.

Which explains the time I thought I was hearing piping when there weren't even queen cells or queen cups present.