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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17 2016, @05:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17 2016, @05:27AM (#389007)

    It's awkward and silly if you're actually concerned about the ambient temperature and how you should dress before going out however. Centigrade degrees are too large - you either wind up using fractions (which I've never seen anyone do) or else your integers contain more margin than they should.

    Eh? where's the problem apropos ambient temperatures

    My temperature tolerances, under normal operating conditions...

    sub -15C - What were those two clanging noises?
    -15C - -5C - It's getting cold..
    -5C - 9C - I'm happy
    9C - 12C - Starting to get uncomfortable here..
    above 12C - Arrrgh!...I'm melting....

    When ill, these figures alter somewhat.

    how granular do you really need it to be? (as to how to dress, t-shirt and denims from -10C up, below -10C maybe a polo shirt or a jumper as well)

    .. The Fahrenheit system was designed for daily life, not for astrophysics.

    Err, don't you mean the Kelvin system there for astrophysics? (or physics in general).

    One degree F is just about exactly the smallest difference in temperature that a healthy human can reliably distinguish. One hundred degrees is a hot summer day, and zero degrees a cold winter night, roughly speaking, and so the first 100 degrees neatly encapsulates the range of temperatures most of us expect to face in our environment, on a scale that corresponds with our sense organs.

    Again, personally I don't get the need for it to be that granular, and I say this as someone brought up using Fahrenheit.