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I dug out my old RC drone today and gave it a run out in the garden. When I flew it to about 10 metres off the ground in the line from the apiary and about 20 metres away I noted that the drone was surrouded by bees -- maybe four or five at a time. Are they attracted by the sound, by the fact that there is flying thing in their flightpath or something else?
When I'd finished flying I found that I had quite few bees flying around the now-quiet drone and one or two landed on it. It was not now near the apiary or the flightpath and I could see no evidence that any bees had been shredded by the rotors. Odd behaviour.
Edit: I have just viewed the videos and I appear to be flying the drone in the flightpath and some of the bees have stopped on the way past for a look but most of them are continuing on. I'll try to get a video tomorrow and have the drone hang statically in the same position so I can see the bees coming at me (the drone, that is).
When I'd finished flying I found that I had quite few bees flying around the now-quiet drone and one or two landed on it. It was not now near the apiary or the flightpath and I could see no evidence that any bees had been shredded by the rotors. Odd behaviour.
Edit: I have just viewed the videos and I appear to be flying the drone in the flightpath and some of the bees have stopped on the way past for a look but most of them are continuing on. I'll try to get a video tomorrow and have the drone hang statically in the same position so I can see the bees coming at me (the drone, that is).
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