Alexander

Those must be an event when a window pane on the floor above the place where the sensor resides cracked and fell and sliced the cable leading to detector. Took some time to fix things, probably just reallocated sensor ID to another station nearby. Old story.

A fun experiment in metro area would be not just measuring background, but actively filter air and measure what’s left on filter. I too have a gamma scintillator crystal setup waiting on a shelf for a day when I have enough time to return to using it.

I did quit after getting PhD, which simplifies changing citizenships and getting some kind of funding a lot. Now I’m trying to figure out whether PhDs are like knights - would anyone recognize PhDs if I find a committee of 3 to grant them (I already have 2)?

We make them, and I’m trying to sell as many as I can to fund this research (it’s not funded otherwise, I’m independent anarchist scientist), but so far it’s a struggle.

Here is a frontpage with sample of actual data http://apiologia.zymologia.fi/

edit: clicked “publish” here

We record humidity and temperature and their songs you can listen to by clicking on the plot (easier to look at in log scale), and some ancient (1970s) algorithms to predict swarming.

This is second sensor array, the first on is in Chernobyl, it’s 20-ish years old now and keeps transmitting radiation levels for public https://do.pripyachka.com/graph/?n=72 (this is also anarchy project, yes, fuck the war and all lying governments although I’m totally on Ukraine’s side, electronics just works without meatbags attention). So I can honestly say that the system is quite robust and low-maintenance. Please contact me if you or your friends want some.

Please do tell us what temperature and substrate you used to make them fruit! Mine just grow mycelium and stop at that.

This is pretty much how I left academia lol, took me 10 years to build a lab and get a tenure (european citizenship, with social benefits and stuff), regret nothing.

I think you are correct here, Eskov’s monographies often mention response of bees to electromagnetic field; almost all effects fade above 1kHz it seems - below this value lies eigenfrequencies of their body hair that are often electrostatically charged, it was indeed possible to agitate bees with ~500Hz AC field by literally rubbing their bellies remotely.

This charge detection actually plays important role in bees colony, as other bees can sense surveying bee returning from the flight and being more charged after interacting with environment outside of beehive; in fact, they’ve made experiments with charged bee-shaped doll that other bees were responding to, only if it was charged, from quite large distances in the hive.

But at higher frequencies, nothing really interacted with them. I was looking into designing radio probe to talk to them through the wood - doesn’t seem feasible.

(I fail to find the links, as I’ve read this research in original language, and it’s quite old, 70-90s. There were some absolutely mad tests, like placing 500V capacitor at hive entry - bees merely slowed down to charge and discharge and proceeded normally. Of course, there was lots of dissection and electrode sticking too, soviet scientists had little mercy for insects).

But this review seems to be just mixing together irrelevant facts from different research that are not really connected. The claim is hot and clickbait, but evidence is not building the story indeed.

Once I had a (paid) task to look for chemical processes that are proven to be stimulated or retarded by microwaves, but not through simple heating. It was a hard task, due to publications like this one lumping together cause and effect at different wavelengths and different irradiation setups. I found none, and to date I keep coming back to this puzzle and there is still nothing. I do not think there is anything there, we should’ve found it by now. I began to understand just why (anything molecular-size is within near field of MW and any scattering would inevitably be nonlocal on molecular level). There could be structural effects, like resonating on insect’s frame, but, as you mention, bees are too small for WiFi range.

Finally, I must say that I’m building a sensor array in beehives, it’s wireless and uses LoRa, throwing packets from the frames; bees are not impressed at all. In fact, few families made clubs just around the sensors this winter and survived; if they can tolerate the field from within millimeters away from antenna that shoots over few km, they should not care about our feeble wifi.