[ExI] bees

[William Flynn Wallace]

Ja, the insect population and diversity here is not nearly as good for amateur
entomology as where I misspent my childhood and youth in Florida.  Wildlife
of a wide variety of genus and species were abundant in that friendly
environment.
 The buggery there was unsurpassed.

Ah sir, I must disagree. Nothing in Florida or even the Amazon can hold a candle
 to southern

Louisiana.  Driving at night can mean using the windshield wipers to
be able to see.

 bill w


On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:46 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> On 2015-12-03 05:49, spike wrote:
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> Now of course I start thinking of ways to measure how bees are feeling.
> Perhaps they fly a little differently when well-fed and fully healthy.  We
> could raise some in isolation and feed them all the best pollen, try to
> create a control group.  Then make some kind of optical measurement device,
> a camera which measures flight speed, oscillation rates, hover times, and
> anything else we can figure out how to reduce to a matrix of data using
> optical data.  Then we compare to domestic bees and wild bees.
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> >…Clearly there must be some behavioural signs you are picking up, if you
> are not imagining it. I can imagine taking a bundle of data of perky and
> tired bees and using machine learning to categorize them - but that
> requires having samples of the kinds. One could also do clustering of their
> behaviour and see if there are clusters that look suspicious - but again,
> if all the bees in the back yard are tired this will not show much.
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> I don't have a good feeling for the Bay Area ecosystem, but it always
> struck me as having unusually few insects around. I was so happy seeing
> that moth larva with you and the kid last time I was over.
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> Dr Anders Sandberg
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