#bee brain

[whumpbees]

Whumper pinning Whumpee down to the floor, or holding them up against the wall. Maybe Whumper ties or chains them into place, or leaves them in a cage when not in use. Just, Whumpee being stuck.

I just think it's neat.

[wistsandmagic]

Today was A Day. It didn't need to be a day. It didn't need to be the Factorio version of Everything Everywhere All At Once as told by Benoit Blanc. It really didn't.

I wanna work on things but my brain is not full of bees, it is bees. I have art I wanna draw. Sketches, really, but I wanna work on them.

I have one of the many current yarncraft projects in my lap to work on, I want to.

I both need and want to edit both the TF Aeterna AU fic and the TFA Blurred Lines fic.

I have TFA replies I need to get to. I think. I need to check our working rp file.

But my brain is bees. I am sitting here staring at tumblr and not even seeing it while a minecraft video plays in the background and the cats stare hungrily at Glyph making jambalaya in the kitchen.

I am severely tempted to rip this shirt off because the touch of cloth on skin right now is making my skin ache and I know it's just because I am entirely overstimulated but ASSDFHLWEHRLHDLKWHERAAAGH. Too jittery after the hellscape that was work today to go lay down and fix it that way.

I screamed in the car on the way home. Have not done that in a long time. I got so angry I braided my hair which I DO NOT DO because I hate doing it by myself.

I want to settle to enjoy things. I have bee-brain. I cannot work on anything even though I want to.

The bees need to be sleep-smoked. I am not a pot smoker because i can't smoke and I am so anxious anyway that I am afraid of what getting the wrong strain would do to me. I don't need more panic attacks thank you very much.

The bees still need to be sleep-smoked. I'm out of chamomile, dammit.

Going to pop the noise-cancelling headphones on, pretend the touch isn't making me wanna turn inside out, and turn on the first lofi thing I can find on Freetube, so I won't get any ads that'll jumpscare me. See if that works.

[goblussy]

been awake since at least 7pm last night and i am Living Babey !!!!

[ceilingninja]

Oh yeah, I can feel that end of the year breakdown coming like a storm cloud.

It's frustrating, because I've made so much progress this year, but I'm so

Tired.

I really just need. A new start. A break. New meds. A better work flow. Something.

I will figure out what I need and get it, but man, can't I just breathe first?

[two-keys]

bee brain? bee brain.

[manukahoneyus]

Largely known for pollination, new findings regarding bees and their brains could lead to new in-roads for digital cameras.

Jair Garcia, Ph.D., the study’s lead author, stated, “Physics suggests the ocelli sensing of the color of light could allow a brain to discount the naturally colored illumination, which would otherwise confuse color perception. But, for this to be true, the information from the ocelli would have to be integrated with colors seen by the compound eyes.”

[notcutenotsorry]

Just wanna smoke myself out of me

[beeamerica]

A bee’s brain has about one million neurons – compared to the 90 billion neurons in a human’s brain. For a long time, animal behaviorists thought it was the power of the hive that led to bees’ impressive feats and that a single bee really wasn’t that bright. That thinking has begun to change and now some scientists believe that an individual bee’s mental abilities may be on par or exceed that of many mammals.

Good Communicators

Bees communicate with one another through a complex series of movements called the “waggle dance.” They use this sophisticated form of communication to tell one another where to find nectar and pollen. Discovered during the early part of the 20th century by Karl von Frisch, an Austrian scientist, it was our first clue that bees may actually be capable of what we would describe as “having thoughts.”

Art Critics

Bees have been shown to be able to distinguish between two different styles of art. When bees had to differentiate between paintings by Monet and Picasso in order to receive a sweet reward, the bees unerringly identified the correct one. When the experiment was repeated using black and white versions of the paintings (to eliminate any preferences the bees might have for color), the results were the same.

Math Geniuses

Remarkably, it appears that bees can count – at least up to the number four. When bees had to fly by a specific number of markers in a tunnel to get to a food reward, they could readily do so even when the markers where moved around or presented in different shapes or colors. It appears that bees can bee taught, to some extent, the ability to recognize symbols representing numbers and also to understand the numbers that these symbols represent.

Flexible Learners

Like any good student, bees can combine things they have learned in one situation and apply them to a new situation. For instance, after learning to recognize abstract shapes that function as guideposts in a maze, bees have the capability of realizing that these shapes may mean different things in a new maze.

Sentient Beings

And most amazingly, new research suggests that bees have “metacognition,” which is the awareness of one’s own thought processes. In a set of experiments, bees were faced with the task of choosing between landing on a spot above a black bar or a spot below it. Depending upon where they landed, they would either receive a sweet or bitter drink. They were also given the option of avoiding the task if they weren’t sure they would succeed. Scientists found that bees opted out of the task when it was difficult to make the right decision and performed it when a positive outcome was assured. These experiments suggest that bees use probability to guide their decision making process, which is considered a basic tenet of metacognition.