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Offline Perry

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Citizen Scientists?
« on: March 15, 2015, 12:39:46 pm »
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Re: Citizen Scientists?
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Citizen Scientists?
« Reply #2 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.
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« Reply #3 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. 
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Re: Citizen Scientists?
« Reply #4 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.
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