From our friends at the California State Beekeepers Association: Thomas Seeley, a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University (and a beekeeper) will be the keynote speaker at the 2014 CSBA Annual Convention, Nov. 18-20. He will share the results of his study A Survivor Population of European Honey Bees Living in the Wild in New York State at the Research Lunch. Seeley is one of the leading researchers in the field of Swarm Intelligence, certainly the best specialist of the collective behavior of honeybees (and probably bees in general) Choosing the right dwelling place is a life-or-death matter for a honeybee colony, he writes in his book, Honeybee Democracy, another talk we anticipate will be fun and ever so interesting. The third talk by Dr. Seeley The Bee Hive as a Honey Factory is about the inner working of a honey bee colony so that it gathers and processes its nectar efficiently, despite tremendous day-to-day differences in nectar availability. An important part of the organization of honey production is the division of labor between foragers, elderly bees who work outside the hive to gather the nectar, and food storers, somewhat younger bees that work inside the hive to process the nectar into honey. We will see how the bees keep the rates of nectar collecting and nectar processing in balance—by means of the tremble dance and stop signal—and so boost the efficiency of a colony’s energy acquisition. (For this talk, he will draw heavily on material reported in his book The Wisdom of the Hive.) Check out Dr. Seeleys video: Swarm Intelligence in Honey Bees https://youtube/watch?v=fEQoRYqm1w8
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:00:01 +0000
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