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"Bees need lots of energy to fly, so they seek the most efficient route among networks of hundreds of flowers using angles of sunlight, which helps them find th
by pedrokost 16y ago
"Bees need lots of energy to fly, so they seek the most efficient route among networks of hundreds of flowers using angles of sunlight, which helps them find their way home, researchers say."
How much energy do bees really need to fly? Is there any data available on the subject?
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- jws 16y agoThe energy consumption of a fully laden Apis mellifera is in the neighborhood of 55mW. http://www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/anatomia/130_efecto_polen_nectar_curva_metabolica.pdf http://www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/anatomia/130_efecto... I had no idea it was so high.
- ramchip 16y agoWhy was the reply killed? It's very relevant. ----- 1 point by jws 1 hour ago | link [dead] The energy consumption of a fully laden Apis mellifera is in the neighborhood of 55mW. http://www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/anatomia/130_efecto_polen_nectar_curva_metabolica.pdf http://www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/anatomia/130_efecto... I had no idea it was so high. -----
- wladimir 16y agoI don't understand either. I see this more frequently lately, that (informative, on topic) posts are randomly killed. It's not like the poster was a negative-karma user, either. Who decides which posts get killed?
- bbatsell 16y agoOften it's because a user accidentally double-posts, the second post gets auto-killed, the user can't see their own dead posts, and they delete the live one rather than the dead one (because they can't tell which is which).
- HelloBeautiful 16y agoClearly, to keep the balance in the system, if there is auto-kill, there must be auto-unkill also :D
- jws 16y agobbatsell hit this correctly. I saw two replies appear and immediately killed one. It surprises me to see replies on the dead one, there were no replies when I did the kill.