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  1. Mapping Sleeping Bees within Their Nest: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Worker Honey Bee Sleep
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    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/ <-- shared paper
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    H/T Dimitrios A. Karras
    “Bees are not only very important for all ecosystems... They are very cute too....
    However, bee societies are very complex and different sleep patterns exist for the other kinds of bees in the hierarchy..
    In general, bees actually sleep, and many species spend around 5-8 hours resting each day, usually at night when they're not foraging.
    Some solitary bees have been photographed sleeping inside flowers, where they cling onto the petals or stamens with their tiny legs and sometimes even their jaws.
    One of the cutest parts is that tired bees can look almost like they've fallen asleep at work, curled up inside a flower with pollen still covering their bodies…”
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    “Patterns of behavior within societies have long been visualized and interpreted using maps. Mapping the occurrence of sleep across individuals within a society could offer clues as to functional aspects of sleep. In spite of this, a detailed spatial analysis of sleep has never been conducted on an invertebrate society. [The authors] introduce the concept of mapping sleep across an insect society, and provide an empirical example, mapping sleep patterns within colonies of European honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Honey bees face variables such as temperature and position of resources within their colony's nest that may impact their sleep. [They] mapped sleep behavior and temperature of worker bees and produced maps of their nest's comb contents as the colony grew and contents changed. By following marked bees, [they] discovered that individuals slept in many locations, but bees of different worker castes slept in different areas of the nest relative to position of the brood and surrounding temperature. Older worker bees generally slept outside cells, closer to the perimeter of the nest, in colder regions, and away from uncapped brood. Younger worker bees generally slept inside cells and closer to the center of the nest, and spent more time asleep than awake when surrounded by uncapped brood. The average surface temperature of sleeping foragers was lower than the surface temperature of their surroundings, offering a possible indicator of sleep for this caste. [They] propose mechanisms that could generate caste-dependent sleep patterns and discuss functional significance of these patterns…”
    #bee #insect #hive #sleeping #sleep #patterns #monitoring #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #spatial #mapping #sleeppatterns #behaviour #society #community #honeybees #ecosystem #colony #infrared #remotesensing #temperature #instrumentation

  2. Mapping Sleeping Bees within Their Nest: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Worker Honey Bee Sleep
    --
    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/ <-- shared paper
    --
    H/T Dimitrios A. Karras
    “Bees are not only very important for all ecosystems... They are very cute too....
    However, bee societies are very complex and different sleep patterns exist for the other kinds of bees in the hierarchy..
    In general, bees actually sleep, and many species spend around 5-8 hours resting each day, usually at night when they're not foraging.
    Some solitary bees have been photographed sleeping inside flowers, where they cling onto the petals or stamens with their tiny legs and sometimes even their jaws.
    One of the cutest parts is that tired bees can look almost like they've fallen asleep at work, curled up inside a flower with pollen still covering their bodies…”
    --
    “Patterns of behavior within societies have long been visualized and interpreted using maps. Mapping the occurrence of sleep across individuals within a society could offer clues as to functional aspects of sleep. In spite of this, a detailed spatial analysis of sleep has never been conducted on an invertebrate society. [The authors] introduce the concept of mapping sleep across an insect society, and provide an empirical example, mapping sleep patterns within colonies of European honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Honey bees face variables such as temperature and position of resources within their colony's nest that may impact their sleep. [They] mapped sleep behavior and temperature of worker bees and produced maps of their nest's comb contents as the colony grew and contents changed. By following marked bees, [they] discovered that individuals slept in many locations, but bees of different worker castes slept in different areas of the nest relative to position of the brood and surrounding temperature. Older worker bees generally slept outside cells, closer to the perimeter of the nest, in colder regions, and away from uncapped brood. Younger worker bees generally slept inside cells and closer to the center of the nest, and spent more time asleep than awake when surrounded by uncapped brood. The average surface temperature of sleeping foragers was lower than the surface temperature of their surroundings, offering a possible indicator of sleep for this caste. [They] propose mechanisms that could generate caste-dependent sleep patterns and discuss functional significance of these patterns…”

  3. Just found #RogueCarrier, a new #roguelite #colony #builder from #HoodedHorse and #WildFields.

    You #captain a huge #science #carrier stranded on an #alien ocean world where the #seas boil with hostile squid. You build whole #factory lines on the deck (#Tetris style placement), plot #waypoints between islands, and can even hop into the #planes and #vehicles yourself. #Combat feels a bit #autobattler, plus #roguelite #event #cards forcing hard choices.

    #Strategy #Management #SciFi #gaming #PC

  4. Just found #RogueCarrier, a new #roguelite #colony #builder from #HoodedHorse and #WildFields.

    You #captain a huge #science #carrier stranded on an #alien ocean world where the #seas boil with hostile squid. You build whole #factory lines on the deck (#Tetris style placement), plot #waypoints between islands, and can even hop into the #planes and #vehicles yourself. #Combat feels a bit #autobattler, plus #roguelite #event #cards forcing hard choices.

    #Strategy #Management #SciFi #gaming #PC

  5. Just found #RogueCarrier, a new #roguelite #colony #builder from #HoodedHorse and #WildFields.

    You #captain a huge #science #carrier stranded on an #alien ocean world where the #seas boil with hostile squid. You build whole #factory lines on the deck (#Tetris style placement), plot #waypoints between islands, and can even hop into the #planes and #vehicles yourself. #Combat feels a bit #autobattler, plus #roguelite #event #cards forcing hard choices.

    #Strategy #Management #SciFi #gaming #PC

  6. Just found #RogueCarrier, a new #roguelite #colony #builder from #HoodedHorse and #WildFields.

    You #captain a huge #science #carrier stranded on an #alien ocean world where the #seas boil with hostile squid. You build whole #factory lines on the deck (#Tetris style placement), plot #waypoints between islands, and can even hop into the #planes and #vehicles yourself. #Combat feels a bit #autobattler, plus #roguelite #event #cards forcing hard choices.

    #Strategy #Management #SciFi #gaming #PC

  7. Just found #RogueCarrier, a new #roguelite #colony #builder from #HoodedHorse and #WildFields.

    You #captain a huge #science #carrier stranded on an #alien ocean world where the #seas boil with hostile squid. You build whole #factory lines on the deck (#Tetris style placement), plot #waypoints between islands, and can even hop into the #planes and #vehicles yourself. #Combat feels a bit #autobattler, plus #roguelite #event #cards forcing hard choices.

    #Strategy #Management #SciFi #gaming #PC

  8. Chrysalis 3: Antelligent Design: A LitRPG Adventure "Garralosh is on the surface, and she has bad intentions toward Anthony and his Colony" Sale: $19.99 to $5.99 by RinoZ Rating: 4.8/5 (1,787 Reviews) #fantasy #litrpg #gamelit #humor #books #colony #adventure #ant #magic #progression #booksky

    Chrysalis 3: Antelligent Desig...

  9. Chrysalis 3: Antelligent Design: A LitRPG Adventure "Garralosh is on the surface, and she has bad intentions toward Anthony and his Colony" Sale: $19.99 to $5.99 by RinoZ Rating: 4.8/5 (1,787 Reviews) #fantasy #litrpg #gamelit #humor #books #colony #adventure #ant #magic #progression #booksky

    Chrysalis 3: Antelligent Desig...

  10. france24.com/en/europe/2025032. An absolutely disastrous idea, which would be a total #surrender of #Ukrainian #sovereignty, rendering the #country little more than an #American #colony. Does #Trump think this would be acceptable to #Putin, let alone #Zelenskyy? Yet another example of Trumpist spontaneous #foreignpolicy, not to mention sheer idiocy.

  11. france24.com/en/europe/2025032. An absolutely disastrous idea, which would be a total #surrender of #Ukrainian #sovereignty, rendering the #country little more than an #American #colony. Does #Trump think this would be acceptable to #Putin, let alone #Zelenskyy? Yet another example of Trumpist spontaneous #foreignpolicy, not to mention sheer idiocy.

  12. Korea Forms Industry Panel to Hammer Out Six-Month Theatrical Window

    South Korea‘s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) have launched a public-private…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #SouthKorea #Colony #Kofic #thekingswarden
    europesays.com/korea/34424/