Deseret or Honey Bee and the HIVE
Recently I came across this blogger who named his domain Hive-Mind.
“Why “Hive-Mind”? A hive mind is the emergent
property of apparent sentience that arises from the behaviors of a colony of
individuals. Just as your neurons, without individual intelligence, interact as
a unit to become a brain, so one can view a hive of bees or a colony of ants
interacting as a unit to become a mind. The whole has behaviors, memories
and characteristics that could not be predicted by studying an individual.”
“OK, cool, but why choose it as a domain name?
Well, I kept bees and was
fascinated by their behaviors at the same time that the World Wide Web was
breaking into public consciousness. Partly in response to the writings of Kevin
Kelly, a founder of Wired magazine as well as publisher and editor of the Whole
Earth Review, I became entranced with the idea that the behaviors of the
individuals in a society, on a planet or on a network, might interact as a
whole to exhibit behaviors that were beyond the ken of parts.”
Note: Whacky, creative and a proud dad, Jordan Schwartz
lives with his wife Michelle and son Ziv live in Wallingford Washington. His
last post about bees was the one in
June 2011. Did his bees die?
Recent Sunspot Activity
with Predictions of
World Wide Web Upsets
Colony
Collapse Disorder has happened worldwide and although it was hinted at in 1994, the buzz about disappearing bees really peaked in 2007. It is curious that I was interested in bees in relation
to serious sunspot activity, or lack thereof, in 2007 as was this this zaney blogger,
Jordan Schwartz, a Washington beekeeper, wrote:
"March 31 2007
By Hive Mind blog
"The solar probe Ulysses’
circumpolar orbit took it below the south pole of the sun this past winter.
While there, sunspot 938 put on the most energetic
performance of any sunspot in four years, ejecting a particle storm that
would have been a “ground-level event” (penetrating the entire atmosphere) had
it been directed at earth…"
"If we consider such a particle
stream to be a secondary stream to the “imaginary” component of the solar field
that would be dominant during a solar minimum, then the quantum field to which
the bees may be sensitive could have been disturbed. Or, the bees could have
lost navigation, possibly abandoning the hive as one of the directional
components of either the quantum field or local terrestrial magnetic variations
moved drastically closer to the sun. They may have flown skyward, attempting to
keep up with the rapidly moving target of home in six dimensions. Or,
hyper-dimensional bee-eaters could have emerged from the sunspot, phasing the
bees out of existence on contact (given the evidence, anything is possible, and
equally strange. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t consider this to be very likely to
say the least)."
More About the Hive and the Role it Plays in Bee
Communication
Perhaps the
most fascinating example of insect behavior is that of one of the most
familiar, the honey bee. Like other social insects, honey bees live in
societies in which survival is dependent on mutual co operation and division of
labor. A colony consists of a queen (reproductive female) and her
offspring. Drones (males) are few, existing only to mate with queens.
Once their duty is performed, they are driven away from the hive before winter.
Workers (sterile females) fill virtually all other roles. Larvae develop
in the cells of the comb that the workers construct from wax secreted from
specialized glands. If a new queen is needed to replace one that has died, or
to lead a swarm from a colony that has out-grown its hive, a larva is selected
by the workers and fed royal jelly. This regal diet alters the larva's
development, and a queen bee develops. The vast majority of larvae do not
receive royal jelly in their diet and thus are destined to become workers.
Almost All Bees are Female – How Can there be a
King Bee?
This is from an article
about the bees way of communicating. “The tasks performed by workers change as
they age. Upon emergence as an adult worker, her first job is that of a maid,
cleaning the cells in which the queen lays eggs and where food is stored. As
the worker ages, she spends less time cleaning and begins caring for young
larvae. After several more days, as her wax secreting glands mature, she enters
the construction business, building the cells the comb.”
“Two weeks or more into her adult life the worker
serves as a guard for a short period, protecting the entrance of the hive from
would-be intruders such as mice, ants, and marauding bees. The last, and most
hazardous job in the short life of the worker is that of a forager: a collector
of nectar (from which they make honey, their source of energy) and pollen
(their source of protein) from flowering plants. How a worker communicates
the location of a pollen and nectar source to other workers in the hive may be
the most incredible and complex form of social behavior existing outside of the
human race.”
The Bee’s Waggle Dance – Hive is All Important
Notice here that the angle of the vertical surface
of a comb in the hive to the sun is the unique positioning the bees use to tell
other workers where the source of pollen and nectar is located in reference to
the hive: “Upon her return to the hive with pollen and nectar, the worker bee
performs an elaborate dance on the vertical surface of a comb. If the source is
relatively distant from the hive (as it generally is), the dance takes the form
of a figure-eight. The forager waggles her body from side to side as she moves
forward in a straight line, then circles to the right, back to her starting
point, waggles ahead again, and then circles to the left (Fig. 1).
This dance
pattern is repeated a number of times. The angle of the straight run, or
"waggle," from vertical is equal to the angle from the hive between
the sun and the nectar/pollen source. If the flowers are located 45 degrees to
the right of the sun, the dance will be oriented 45 degrees to right of
vertical. The distance of the straight waggle run is proportional to the
distance from the hive to the source. Details of this behavior can be found in
many books, including an excellent discussion in Gould and Gould (1988), an
easily read and comprehensive reference on the honeybee.
A curious thing happens however when the source of
pollen is much, much closer. In my next blog I am going to go into more depth
on a very important concept quoting extensively from an article appearing
November 2007 in Discovery Magazine. There is that year, 2007, again. Bees were
really in the world wide mind that year.
Cross Pollination of Fields of Research Produce Amazing Insight
SUMMARY: What a glorious time to be living, to have access to books and magazines, via the internet or cyberspace or in other words the highways in the wilderness in all of the wildly divergent areas of study that I've pondered and researched. I've come to realize that God knows it all; he knows what has been, is being, and will be written on every one of these topics. He is the perfect fount of truth and light. All I have to do is be worthy then listen and he will direct my thoughts that I might write what is needful at this time in my blog. What I write may not be the final truth or the final word, but may just be the thought provoking idea that motivates another person. Isn't that what a BEE does? Pollinates so that another can bear fruit?
SCRIPTURE: "And I give unto you a commandment that you shall teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom. Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand;
"Of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wrs and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms--
"That ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to magnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the mission with which I have commissioned you.
"Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor." --Doctrine and Covenants 88:78-81
This is our Stake's theme for the year. As a people we must prepare so that we can share the saving doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ, including the salvation of all those who have ever lived upon the earth.
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