Monday, March 19, 2007


Please Don't Eat the Daisies is my Nibblefest entry for March 2007 with the theme being birds.
The title is a reference to a tv series from the 60's which I am afraid I am old enough to have remembered. Of course there was no crow in the show but a big romping Old English sheepdog belonging to a suburban family with four rambunctious boys.

Nibblefest is a themed ebay arts contest in auction style that takes place between the 20th and 27th of each month. Entries can be found by doing a search for nfac on ebay during those seven days and the absolute best part is that they all start at 99 cents!
Link to this auction

Friday, March 02, 2007


Honey bees are disappearing. It's called CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder and it has scientists buzzing. The important task of pollination cannot be underestimated.

You see bees, similar to homing pigeons rely on magnetic fields to guide where they need to go. Here is an excerpt from SETIAI.com on Honey Bee Senses, Proprioception and Magnetism


"Proprioception is the sense used by an animal to feel the position and orientation of its body. Honeybees have very sensitive receptors located in the neck joint which determine which way up the head is pointing. The bees use this information to determine which way is up and to enable them to always fly upright.


Perhaps the most enigmatic of the bee's senses is their ability to read the Earth's magnetic field. Magnetism is used by many animals, including dolphins and pigeons. The honeybee, however, is more sensitive than any other creature known. They use this sense not only for navigation, but also when building the honeycomb panels of a new hive. If a powerful magnet is placed close to a hive which is under construction, a strange looking cylindrical comb will be produced. The shape of this comb will look like nothing ever found in nature.


It is not known exactly how this sensory modality functions. What is known is that a bee's abdomen contains many millions of tiny magnetic crystals. These crystals, which are first formed during the pupal stage of development, are contained within cells called trophocytes. Each trophocyte is connected to the nervous system."


Are our Earth's magnetic poles preparing to shift? The fading of the magnetic field has already begun and could be a precursor to the actual event.


Edgar Cayce, perhaps the most notable psychic of our time predicted this shift around the year 2000.


Unlike Global Warming which is something we as humans can possibly avert, is there any way to soften the blow of an actual polar shift? Perhaps only the bees know the answer.


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