I’m going to be taking over for my late uncle, he had some hives here on the family property. Apparently one did collapse but one is very healthy and strong. My cousin, his daughter, learned a lot from him and keeps bees of her own and will help me out a lot later in the month.
I’ll definitely be scouring your topic, Bob. I hope I’ll be able to snap some photos of this coming honey harvest.
I think of silver as anti-bacterial and sulfur as anti-fungal, in terms of simple/elemental treatments.
I seems unlikely to me that radio-waves affect bee health but I am open minded to a point? Radio-wave shielding is well worn territory. You want something electrically conductive surrounding the thing to be shielded. It should be conductive over the whole object and if not, over an area similar to the wave-length you are trying to shield. “Faraday Cage” is the search term for the curious.
Without knowing the frequencies to be blocked and what not… I might just glue aluminum foil on the outside and paint it like those cell phone bags.
That is the part that sounded suspect to me too. They are grinding up bucky balls into the paint and then not grounded. However, I am not seeing any evidence demonstrating they absorb radio frequency. Ultraviolet and Infrared yes.
They are an insulator not a conductor as near as I can tell.
However, they are diamagnetic, so it repels a magnetic field… And bees use the magnetic field and have magnetic receptors on their abdomens. Sunspots also create magnetism that reaches the earth.
This COULD indicate they work, but it is a different cause and effect then they guessed.