Laboratory planner by day, toddler parent by night, enthusiastic everything-hobbyist in the thirty minutes a day I get to myself.
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I’m a lab planner, and sometimes getting researchers to describe what sort of containment device they need for a given process is like pulling teeth.
- Chemical fume hood? That’s a hood.
- Class II, Type B2 BSC? Also a hood.
- Class II, Type A2 BSC? Believe it not, hood.
- Laminar flow bench? Yep, that’s a hood too.
- PCR dead air box? Somehow also a hood.
Like, surely you’re not doing BSL-2 work in a LAF? Please tell me you’re not doing that.
…and that, son, is why at some point in the distant future the universe will be an undifferentiated soup of unvarying temperature, full of depleted and inert mass slowly evaporating into photons. In the end, everything you’ve ever been, ever done, and ever seen will be nothing more than a diffuse haze of light, racing unobserved and unobservable through a dead and infinite void. Any questions?
Bees are basically an introduced domesticated animal outside of Europe. Other parts of the world have their own native pollinators that are at significantly greater risk than bees, which are heavily managed and extensively studied due to their agricultural importance. For all the popular alarm over Colony Collapse Disorder, bee colony populations have been basically stable for decades and certainly haven’t seen any measurable decline in recent years.
The Wikipedia article for these little monsters describes the males aggressively fighting over females mid-mating, to the point of killing some as they attempt to tear them away from one another, and then squeezing the eggs out of their dead bodies to fertilize them… Gonna guess it’s the same one.