Bees and the Electromagnetic Field

How many recordings would I have to make?

The frequency of bees changes throughout the day, the season, during hibernation, flows, requeening, etc, etc. As Linton observed,

…I would like to record the sound of honey bees in their hive. The sound they make varies over the course of a day and over the course of a season. It is affected by many factors, such as the presence or absence of a healthy queen, diseases, food supply, temperature, etc. Thus, the information, if analyzed in real time, could provide a quick indication of problems within the honey bee colony. For starters, I would like to record 30 seconds of audio every hour, indefinitely. I expect that once I have determined the bees’ patterns of sound, that much less data would be adequate, possibly 10 or 15 seconds of audio every 4 hours might be enough.

This would be overkill, as Linton later deduced. There exists a fundamental or natural frequency range for a healthy hive regardless of the time of year. What changes is the range of related tones around the natural frequency. But, within the healthy range (150-250Hz), are there subgroups, brood box, super, and hibernation that need to be accounted for? Not for my purposes. I want to capture the holistic sound produced from the sound of the hive. Furthermore, only the frequencies recorded from the totality of the hive will produce a coherent frequency capable of enhancing and sustaining the frequency of other hives. A. Honey bee wings beat at a constant rate of 230 beats per second or 13,800 beats/minute. B. In flight, an adult bee flaps its wings 250 times a second but when fanning, it grips the comb and this brings the frequency down to 190 Hz.

C. A drone beats his wings at a rate of 190 Hz.

D. “[N]urse" bees care for the brood around-the-clock even when experiencing a light:dark illumination regime.”

The recording made from the super was loud with spiky overtones. The recording made from the brood box produced a continuous band of sound with sympathetic overtones. The brood box recording gave the most consistent and satisfying frequency output. The box’s melodious hum indicated to me that this recording would provide a more coherent EMF than the buzzing from the super. This gave rise to the next question.

What is the difference between the effects of the queen bee’s secretion of pheromones on the hive and the hive’s EMF? 

One of the most important functions of the queen is to enforce the social order of the hive. She does this by her very presence! "Queen Substance" is a pheromone that the queen secretes to let the member bees know that all is well in the hive. Pheromones are chemical substances secreted by the body that like members of the same species recognize and respond to. Bees in a colony "share" the queen's pheromones among themselves, and thus recognize fellow members, as well as identify intruders.

While the queen’s pheromones produce a regulatory effect on the hive the EMF of a colony maintains its strength and health. Cells produce EME. Cells organized into a system (body) radiate an EMF from within their body out into the space surrounding their body. Professor Hunt while at UCLA and now director of BioEnergy Fields Foundation has done extensive research on EMFs and later bioscalar waves. Hunt writes, 

Scientifically fields are all inside and outside of the body…. It comes from inside the atoms of the body, it manifests outward and transacts with the atoms of the world.

 A healthy EMF protects the body from external interference, be it disease, parasites or incompatible EME charges. A strong EMF creates a level of coherency that is vital to maintaining health and capable of producing a healing effect on another body with which it shares a harmonic resonance. Hunt states,

The way in which the field is organized determines how it affects the … body. …[T[he contaminated and weak electromagnetic energy of [the] environment [decreases the energy of the field internally] …. If the field is coherent, all of the electrical system inside the field becomes coherent. If the field is incoherent, everything goes awire.

Melissa, the Bee goddess of Mount Eryx Gold Plaque form Rhodes and a Bee Coin from Sicily © http://www.thebeegoddess.com/

There exists a relationship between the honey bee hive and EMF it produces that is greater than its parts. I believe that a strong coherent EMF produced by the hive creates a harmonic field that can have a highly organizing effect on surrounding bodies; the Zen of beekeepers. In all cultures where honey bees existed, there, too, existed a mystery cult with the hive at its center. “Bees were venerated in prehistory and revered in ancient cultures far and wide, especially Egypt”. The power the bee hive has extended over mankind from cell to soul has been extraordinary.


What is the connection between the honeybee and the EMF? Let’s start from the bottom up.

First, the Earth has a natural frequency of 7-9Hz. The hive is a natural resonator and is activated by the Earth's frequencies. A resonator is a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromag-netic or acoustic waves.

Second, in addition to the EME produced on the cellular level, the bee’s abdomen produces an EMF. The elasticity of the bee’s abdomen, growing with nectar and water and shrinking when unloaded in the hive, is attributed to collagen molecules which help tissues withstand stretching . Another attribute of the molecule is it ability to generate an EMF when oscillated. Kruszelnicki suggests that the behavior of bees oscillating their wings against their abdomen plays a role in communication and navigation. This is highly likely, because the mushroom gland, located in the abdomen, contains paramagnetic particles that function like a compass.

Throughout her stay inside the nest, the recruiting forager produced sounds. During sound production, her folded wings vibrated dorsoventrally over her abdomen and she attracted the attention of follower bees who positioned their antennae closely around her body.

Bees demonstrate an extraordinary sensitivity to vibrational frequencies. (The human ear responds to sound pressure.) “Bees notice tones as vibration attractions over the underground, over their claw members,… [through] a sensory organ in the rail of their legs” and through their antennae. They can pick up frequencies from 100 to 800 cycles per second.

Bees and their hives both depend on and produce EM vibrational waves. I suggest that the EMF of the hive acting as a magnetic force plays an important part in their successful flight patterns. Again, Goldberg writes,

It is commonly held that bees orient themselves to light and upon returning to the hive go through a complex dance to relay this information to other bees. However bees also use the electromagnetic fields of the earth as a force for orientation. The bees have a gland that is called the mushroom gland, located in the abdomen, which functions much like a compass. The difference is that it relays constant data back to the brain as to where the bee is, much like the function of a flight recorder. This ability to navigate tells the bee where they are in time and space.

This forms the basis for laying down memory tracts and organizing information, the very basis for learning. The bee's orientation to the earth's electromagnetic signature is a reliable, simple and dependable means of orientation and navigation …

The EMF signature of the hive with its capacity to resonate the Earth’s frequencies coupled with the EMF of the bee’s abdomen creates an electromagnetic attraction that orients the bees back to the hive. If the EMF of the hive has been interfered with or the bee’s capacity to navigate has been weakened then the successful return flight would be questionable.

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