Mostly, I was just tickled to catch 15th on a technical error
... hard to do with bee biology
Channel?
Nah Teri, I don't document my inquiries with video, plenty of others doing that. I do it with words, silly projects, and injuries.
Alas, while I have personally confirmed the flammability of methane, I received no scars to document it. While the study was conducted in a college setting, it wasn't scientifically controlled(or controlled in any other sense). Plus, the results may have been affected by the copious amounts of alcohol in my system at the time; which definitely precipitated the experiment itself. So on this, we are reliant on other intrepid souls of youtube to document the science.
This particular line of inquiry has brought to mind a question of paramount importance. That question is, of course, "Do bees fart?"
While I have found researchers claiming that they do, all of them merely describe the expulsion of air accompanying solids and/or liquids. I find these claims dubious since a true fart must contain methane and be of gas alone. While methane content can be argued as to whether it is a correct metric for definition, I cannot accept the idea that expulsion of anything other than gas, can be considered a fart. Indeed, not only do I reject the ideas of these researchers, but would prefer to not be anywhere around them, and most especially not behind them.
Even looking to youtube, I haven't seen any documentation of flaming bee butts. Further research is definitely needed to answer this question, so I've begun looking into the process of applying for a federal grant.
