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Bees Ground Stealth Fighter

posted by martyb on Tuesday August 16 2016, @09:33AM   
from the buzzy-bunch-needs-new-home dept.

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El Reg reports

20,000 [...] bees were found in the exhaust nozzle of an F-22 Raptor engine following flight operations at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, on June 11, 2016.

Rather than kill the bees--America is badly affected by hive collapse, the base decided to call on a beekeeper to take them away.

Andy Westrich, US Navy retiree, was the apiarist known to the on-base entomologist (the Air Force keeps insect experts on its bases, apparently). Westrich used vacuum hoses to trap the bees, and he calculated the swarm size from the weight of the captured bees--eight pounds, or in modern numbers, 3.6 kilos.

From the USAF release: "Westrich suspected that the swarm of bees were on their way to a new location to build a hive for their queen. [...] Westrich believes she landed on the F-22 to rest. Honey bees do not leave the queen, so they swarmed around the F-22 and eventually landed there."

wordlessTech has a good photo.

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• Re:-1 flamebait Re:-1 flamebait (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday August 16 2016, @04:34PM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday August 16 2016, @04:34PM (#388713) Journal

  There's something wrong with your table: Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius, not at zero degrees Fahrenheit.

  Also: normal body temperature: 37 °C, 98.6 °F. Clearly the Celsius temperature wins here.

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• Re:-1 flamebait Re:-1 flamebait (Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday August 16 2016, @06:24PM

  by Arik (4543) on Tuesday August 16 2016, @06:24PM (#388771) Journal

  In reality water usually does NOT freeze right at 0, but I'll give you the point anyway, I did misphrase that badly. At 0 C water is definitely frozen hard, and it's dang cold on top of that, was more what I was trying to say.
  
  As someone that's lived most of his life in temperate climates, 32 isn't really all that cold. You still have plenty of liquid water at that temperature, it's just brisk, nice weather for a run.

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  • my day for typos? (Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday August 16 2016, @06:26PM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday August 16 2016, @06:26PM (#388772) Journal

    Obviously I meant 0F in the first paragraph, not 0C, sorry.

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