footballkid’s blog

I listened to a podcast about bees. I would have watched pod-casts on football, but they didn’t seem very interesting, and then while looking up animal pod-casts I found a site called Animals Aloud. I went down the list and that’s how I found the podcast on the bees. I learned that bees, when put with different paintings of flowers were attracted to Van Gogh’s painting the most. They did this experiment by using bees who had never seen a flower before, and connecting a tube from their nest to a box with different paintings(well, poster copies of them). They would record every time a bee landed on a painting, where it landed, and how long it stayed there. Each experiment with each “painting” was 4 minutes long. Van Gogh’s painting had 146  approach flights, 99 of which were to flowers. His painting had 15 landings, and 13 were on flowers. I thought it was really interesting, especially considering that in a poll, the sane painting was the number 6 favorite painting in the world as rated by humans. The bad news is they had no place for me to comment on it, so I couldn’t tell them how I enjoyed it.