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Bees in brief.
15 November 2005 16:50Realised I was too spaced out and forgot yesterday, so Happy Birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
requiem_17_23!
Today was a good bee day. We have a new flight arena which is a more sensible shape and should give us more flexibility. We've started a new run of experiments, involving training all the bees en masse. This involved having about 20 bees loose in the maze and having to stick in paintbrushes to mark 5-10 of them.
The most bees we had loose in the room at any one time was 6, owing to my incompetence... One of them liked my head and kept coming to see me. In general, however, lots of progress made in the mass training. (As a random aside, bees marked with a superglued-on disc look like this.)
Some really weird tiny grey mutant bees were born, so the housekeeping bees took them out and dumped them outside the colony to die.
We're getting a new colony sometime next week for some different experiments.
requiem_17_23!Today was a good bee day. We have a new flight arena which is a more sensible shape and should give us more flexibility. We've started a new run of experiments, involving training all the bees en masse. This involved having about 20 bees loose in the maze and having to stick in paintbrushes to mark 5-10 of them.
The most bees we had loose in the room at any one time was 6, owing to my incompetence... One of them liked my head and kept coming to see me. In general, however, lots of progress made in the mass training. (As a random aside, bees marked with a superglued-on disc look like this.)
Some really weird tiny grey mutant bees were born, so the housekeeping bees took them out and dumped them outside the colony to die.
We're getting a new colony sometime next week for some different experiments.
