do the bees die if you dont use a light at all for one night?

Post #394,121 by boxley 9/5/14 12:31:04 PM Reply	do the bees die if you dont use a light at all for one night? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
Post #394,124 by Andrew Grygus 9/5/14 12:44:17 PM Reply	I do not know - not here - but somewhere else?
Post #394,125 by Andrew Grygus 9/5/14 12:51:59 PM Reply	What I do know is, if the light is off in the evening . . . . . I get bees through the windows and they start bouncing off the dining room lights. Guests find this disturbing.
Post #394,128 by boxley 9/5/14 1:37:12 PM Reply	hmm, wonder what the attraction is? strange Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
Post #394,134 by Another Scott 9/5/14 2:04:27 PM Reply	Hive nearby? http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=24577.0 Don't know what you could do about it. Maybe keep the light off for a few days, put a glob of honey somewhere at a far corner of the yard or something? HTH. Cheers, Scott.
Post #394,147 by Andrew Grygus 9/5/14 6:55:07 PM Reply	Re: Hive nearby? I know of no hive nearby. If there were one close, I'd see a lot of bees going to and fro. During the day I see almost no bees at all around here. Looking out there around midnight, or even the wee hours, there might be one bee bouncing off the light. I have never seen them arriving because I get up when there is enough light to see by, but usually well before there is any direct sunlight. By this time there will already be a lot of dead bees on the porch - and no more arriving. I have never seen any arriving.
Post #394,137 by Ashton 9/5/14 4:10:14 PM Reply	Never having observed/noticed a bee at night .... puzzlement. Hypothesis: May hap ... nicotinoids in the new Corporate Kill-ALL-with one $$$saving Application, have deranged the susceptibles in the colony? LOTS of susceptibles. (Think about how little of some Substance-X might have deranged the Murdochs, CIEIOs, Cheneys? within the most pestilent species ever brewed-up by deranged-Chance?) What if we are ALL Slaves to Demon-Probability and certain/rare such possible- molecular assemblages? Per XKCD: Astatine, for example: does Not Want To Exist: get a few molecules of That-together and they 'catch-fire' violently, to the point: that no one has ever SEEN! even micro-size samples of this Element. (Nope, not even the μGm specks via which Seaborg got first real data about Pu's chemistry.) The (local-) Universe is weirder than our poor power to make human-killing and species-eliminating toxins du jour. Prey either Way: as to hoping we get ?better? at the snuffing of most-anything that was ever once alive. :-/ Are we not a whole-lot like living-Astatine? (while making metaphor-games for fun & profit while screwing all other Considerations.) Hey, isn't that what 99% of Corporations DO? Rest case. For the nonce. Ergo: At is NOT the bee-killer substance; on to the next quadrillion+ combos :-/
Post #394,152 by scoenye 9/5/14 8:46:39 PM Reply	Zombie flies? http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/01/03/zombie-fly-parasite-killing-honeybees/ The parasitic fly lays eggs in a bee’s abdomen. Several days later, the parasitized bee bumbles out of the hives—often at night—on a solo mission to nowhere. These bees often fly toward light and wind up unable to control their own bodies.
Post #394,153 by Another Scott 9/5/14 9:03:31 PM Reply	Interesting. :-(
Post #394,154 by Ashton 9/5/14 9:04:58 PM Reply	Great sleuthing! Thanks.. in my area, too :-/ As I don't have night-lites except on motion-detectors, ns-see-um. Maybe will leave one on.. and see if it's right-In my bailiwick. Will pass-around to local troops: clearly this is some neural derangement, but in terminal phase. Have to see if N. Califonia is rife? or thus far unique. (The Good-news! ..just seems to become more piddling; a small victory re some misanthrope CEO, a few nasty Pols getting a long-evaded comeuppance.) A 0-endorphin diet in homo-saps ... over time might catalyze similar alterations, as in these poor Bees.

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