Honey Bee Landing Technique

The University of Queensland in Australia features an online article titled Bees show off the perfect landing. As it indicates bee landing on a flower is marked by a transition from speedy flight, comparable to an aircraft's movement, to the hovering more typical of helicopters. The bee landing is contrasted with that of a fly whose landing is described as a ‘controlled crash'. Also interesting is the analogy between the bee landing and the landing of a human pilot. Professor Mandyam Srinivasan noted the degree of difficulty for a human pilot. Yet bees routinely accomplish the feat.

Use of a high speed camera made possible a sequential breakdown in bee activity leading to a landing. Scientists observed bee antennae touch a surface prior to landing and this seems to trigger surface grasping by bee legs. The antennae role came as a surprise and pointed out the coordinated actions of visual identification, antennae surface touching and leg grasping in the act of landing.

Somerset Patriot Baseball Coming in April

New Jersey hosts several minor league baseball teams. One of them is the Somerset Patriots who play in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Two other New Jersey teams, the Newark Bears and the Camden Riversharks, also play in this league.

The Patriots play 70 home games in the TD Bank Ballpark which has a seating capacity of 6,100. The ballpark is located at 1 Patriots Park, Bridgewater, NJ 08807. The phone number is 732-494-9200. Their season begins on April 22nd. They play their first seven games on the road and then come home for their first home game on April 30th starting at 7:05 PM. They play the Bridgeport Bluefish. You can purchase tickets online. Prices range from $5.00 for lawn seating to $12.50 for premium field box seats.