Comments on: This is not cool

By: Liv

Liv — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:46:28 +0000

Hey, maybe we can make giant bees, then put them on a big cage over Alaska or Africa to change extreme temperatures.
Or we can make pets with the same characteristics… or maybe we can have it in our system…
Hehehe.

By: Liv

Liv — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:34:00 +0000

search in the site “bees heat”

it gives you several hits.

http://www.springerlink.com/(5b4x1s5511tv2uagdob20r55)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=searcharticlesresults,3,26;

By: Richard Sharpe

Richard Sharpe — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:38:31 +0000

I don't get it. The first link seems to be to:

Nuptial feeding of spermless spermatophores in the Hawaiian swordtail cricket, Laupala pacifica (Gryllidae: Triginodiinae)

which seems to have nothing to do with bees.

By: Fly

Fly — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:48:43 +0000

I?d like to know the type of DNA changes that lead to such behavioral adaptation.

By: bbartlog

bbartlog — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:59:11 +0000

The heat-balling phenomenon itself is not a new discovery; I also remember hearing about this years ago. The new/publishable stuff is on the differences between the strains of bees and also (if I remember the abstract right) the bees’ ability to calibrate their temperature increase to the right level for killing different types of wasps.

I was going to verify this second part by clicking the link again, but on a second attempt it takes me to a different abstract. Strange…

By: jamie

jamie — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:46:20 +0000

Seems like I read about This a few years ago.

By: jamie

jamie — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:45:34 +0000

Seems like I read about a few years ago.

By: scottm

scottm — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:24:57 +0000

I wonder how long it will take the Foreign bees to develop this ability, a good study for future generations.

By: scottm

scottm — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:53:49 +0000

That is cool (heh)