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Yeah Oh maur science Allah shmoop sorta all right Well

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giant honey bees really put the power in numbers idea

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good used by moving their bodies in a timely fashion

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called shimmering to repel predators such as hornets giant honeybees

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nest in the open meaning that their bodies are exposed

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on the outside of the nest Well the idea is

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that when a hornet approaches a patch of bees begins

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the social event by pitching their abdomens upwards They do

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that at the Green Bay Packer games too If you

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look close other neighboring bees quickly join in and spread

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the wave of action across the nest Figure one right

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here shows the relative strength of abdominal thrust activity versus

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experimental time While a predatory wasp is in front of

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the nest No small scale waves are in the blue

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area and big scale waves there in the red area

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All right now down to figure to right here That

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shows the number of shaking bees per frame versus experimental

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time The velocities and distances air split into different classes

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A class one distance is closest to the nest and

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a class five distance is farthest from the nest wealth

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velocity is split into eight classes with class one being

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the slowest in class Eight being the fastest Well the

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closer the hornet the higher the wave strength and the

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faster the hornet flies past Annette the higher the wave

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strength for the wave strength is controlled by number of

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shaking bees I eat the higher number of shaking bees

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The stronger of away right makes sense Okay So And

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then here's some detail on figure one kind of skin

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that if you want right then figure to when the

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bees and the birds and whatever Alright that's actually a

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different course Okay one according to the information and figure

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one What is the experimental time for the peak that

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has a value of one point zero for relative strength

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All right figure while I check this out Okay People

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forget five minute abs These bees have their ab workout

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down Teo Well fifty seconds and figure one The vertical

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axis of the graph shows the relative strength or rather

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the intensity at which the bees are thrusting their abs

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relative to how hard they could be working Thiss graph

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goes upto one point zero because while this would be

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the max intensity that they work at you know during

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one of these waves sessions So look for the place

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where the white line reaches the top of the graf

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or the red zone If we move horizontally along the

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graft to the location of the highest peak well then

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we see that this peak lines up with the experimental

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time of about thirty two seconds Yeah we always knew

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time was nothing more than an experiment That's it All

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right so the answer is B They're right there Thirty

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two seconds and we're done the

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