Friday, June 22, 2012

Bee's and CFL's

Many of you know that just recently I was woofing at Sophia college in Brunswick Jn WA

During my stay there and amidst cleaning up after the nasty storms, I noticed a rather large hive of bee's in residence in one of the building roofs.

At night I noticed the bee's were attacking the night / security lights on the covered walkway.

After further investigation I discovered the light closest to the hive and the one that had the most dead bee's under it in the morning was a Compact Fluro lamp.
 
I removed the light, it was then too dark to safely navigate the walkway at night.

I found a low wattage Halogen type lamp and put it in, the bee's didn't attack it.

I can only guess that the electronic noise made by the CFL was annoying the bee's so they attacked it in defence of the hive.



2 comments:

  1. Maybe, but it could have been that it was a cool white globe (so closer to daylight) and the bees weren't attacking it but just getting confused because it looks like sunlight to them.

    This is just a bit of a guess on my part though :)

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  2. That also could have been the case. I was just happy not to see about 150 dead bees in the morning.

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