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my grandfather who happily let his cheese age on the countertop until larvae appeared because it improved the taste would not be shocked at all by that.
Is it a personal habit or a local speciality? If the later, any name/recipe will be appreciated.
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.
My son befriended one of the leading African elephant researchers who is now one of the big wigs at Disney's Animal Kingdom. When we met him, he explained how researchers used this knowledge to teach African villages how to become beekeepers. Elephants would often trample their crops or other areas of the village, so they taught them how to keep bees around the perimeter of the village. The elephants stay away and th…
More than once I had flies flying full speed into my nose and get trapped there! If I was an elephant with a nose bigger than a Henry hover sucking stinging flies I would be scared too!
Yeah - that was my first thought .. A bee sting inside your trunk would be no joke !
I would not recommend.
More than once I had flies flying full speed into my nose and get trapped there! If I was an elephant with a nose bigger than a Henry hover sucking stinging flies I would be scared too!
Yeah - that was my first thought .. A bee sting inside your trunk would be no joke !
My son befriended one of the leading African elephant researchers who is now one of the big wigs at Disney's Animal Kingdom. When we met him, he explained how researchers used this knowledge to teach African villages how to become beekeepers. Elephants would often trample their crops or other areas of the village, so they taught them how to keep bees around the perimeter of the village. The elephants stay away and th…
Additional net effect: crops were better - fertilized. Random bee fact: each workerbee trip returns ~40mg nectar to the hive. <3 Not Your Beekeeper
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>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).
This kind of over dramatizing is tiresome. "Demonic chords" (what's a demonic chord, anyway? Are bees buzzing in a tritone? Are bee hives playing chords?), talking about it sounding like a 1920's vampire movie, etc. Sure makes it sound like nothing in the world could be more creepy. Then you go and watch a video demonstrating this effect, and it's more like the humming/buzzing sound from the hive is... slower. That's…
Yes, a good perception (yours).
As a beekeeper, I "feel" these things differently.
My son befriended one of the leading African elephant researchers who is now one of the big wigs at Disney's Animal Kingdom. When we met him, he explained how researchers used this knowledge to teach African villages how to become beekeepers. Elephants would often trample their crops or other areas of the village, so they taught them how to keep bees around the perimeter of the village. The elephants stay away and th…
My cats have been bitten by various insects more than once and are still not at all "scaredy" around them.
My cat has had close calls with various mammals but is never afraid of them. Buzzed by a bumblebee or fly? He won't go outside the rest of the day. Screeched at by flocking birds? Hiding under the table, inside. He likes to eat ants, though.
Then, one year, he put his paw over one that landed near him and was so alarmed by the buzzing fit that he still hasn't gotten over it.
My son befriended one of the leading African elephant researchers who is now one of the big wigs at Disney's Animal Kingdom. When we met him, he explained how researchers used this knowledge to teach African villages how to become beekeepers. Elephants would often trample their crops or other areas of the village, so they taught them how to keep bees around the perimeter of the village. The elephants stay away and th…