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There’s a brief mention of a study that found that “merely playing recordings of angry bees through speakers in the field was enough to cause the elephants to flee” but it seems like that would be a far cheaper solution than putting actual beehives all over the border.
When being attacked by an elephant, would it help to make bee noises? And is there a similar trick for dogs?
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Elephants have very sensitive ears. The buzzing of a hive is what drives them away.
>The buzzing of a hive is what drives them away. When a hive becomes queenless, it begins humming differently (demonic chords). This sound change is a good indicator (to an observant beekeeper) that it is in chaos and should be left alone. Drives mammals away — the sound is EERIE (think of a cheezy 1920's vampire movie's soundtrack).
There’s a brief mention of a study that found that “merely playing recordings of angry bees through speakers in the field was enough to cause the elephants to flee” but it seems like that would be a far cheaper solution than putting actual beehives all over the border.
There’s a brief mention of a study that found that “merely playing recordings of angry bees through speakers in the field was enough to cause the elephants to flee” but it seems like that would be a far cheaper solution than putting actual beehives all over the border.
When being attacked by an elephant, would it help to make bee noises? And is there a similar trick for dogs?
But when bees swarm—and African bees swarm aggressively—hundreds of bees might sting an elephant in its most sensitive areas, like the trunk, the mouth, and eyes. It would be nice if they could form a mutual relationship with honey badgers that don't care how many times they're stung. Except therein lies the problem, honey badgers don't care about anything.
Except honey?
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Elephants have very sensitive ears. The buzzing of a hive is what drives them away.
Does that mean that you don't actually need to keep bees to drive them away, just replay their sound?
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Additional net effect: crops were better - fertilized. Random bee fact: each workerbee trip returns ~40mg nectar to the hive. <3 Not Your Beekeeper
> crops were better - fertilized. You had my hopes up that I could keep some bees to apply fertilizer to my crops for minute.