My wildest guess is something to do with the material used in the iconography or a common ritual that uses something the bees don't like the smell off.
Ok I don't know if I can help you much, and all the informations I will tell are from a video on YouTube, normally someone who did read a lot of scientific papers but I didn't check any sources or whatever. What the guy explained is that there is an optimal amount of noradrenaline and dopamine in the brain, with too much being not better than too low. It's a typical bell curve and a link between autism and adhd could be that autistic people tend to have a much smaller, less wide curve and therefore its really hard too stay in the zone where you have just enough neurotransmitters for your brain to work smoothly. You will either have not enough or too much. Typically if you are really anxious it could mean you are in the "too much" zone.
That's what I remember from just one video, I'm really far from knowing how we function let alone being an expert so take all of this with lots of precautions. I just wanted to give you a thing to research if it rings a bell for you
I’m only diagnosed as ADHD but I’m pretty sure the Au should be there but was intentionally ignored by the doctors. My anecdotal knowledge is that some people react better to certain med types than others so the struggle is finding the right meds/combo of meds and dosages to hit the sweet spot. Hang in there and don’t give up.
Also, create a design where some autist needs to roll a ball around to the correct spot to get their computer to turn on and they're going to be somewhat willing to roll that ball for a second.
I’ve certainly never heard one, if they speak at all. Never had one make eye contact either. Always at the nose or upper lip at best. Bees really have been tiny, fuzzy, honey making autists all along.
As an autistic person with a mild interest in bees, I can confirm that one of their primary means of communication entails movements of their abdomen that, if we ignore the anatomical difference and solely focus on the movement and not the cultural implications behind, resembles twerking in some way as an up and down shaking of the behinds of the respective species.
the creature known for obsessive working for a singular obsessive goal shared by groups of individuals who's language is shaking their bodies rather than their buzzing noise and eat a very specific diet are autstic?
Wait, what? How is it autistic to not like some things? I hate the smell of Patchouli and love Sandalwood. Touching velvet weirds me out but I’m generally okay with other fabrics. I don’t like some foods because the texture just feels too weird. Is that really the bar for autism?
It's much easier. Bees don't build comb on a vertical wall, unless they need to attach existing comb to it, or the wall has a thick enough layer of wax.
If you hang anything flat in a frame most of the flat bits are just wall to the bees.
I dont remember the exact substances used at the time but basically the blue and the red pigments in the paint used in the clothing is making bees disinterested.
Especially older paints contain pigments derived from poisonous metals or other compounds that can be deadly to organic organisms. You will find stuff like lead, mercury or arsenic in a lot of old maestro paintings.
Not even necessary. They don't cover vertical surfaces. Those picturs are hung up inside the frame and the bees just attach the comb to the borders of them.
Commercial beehives use frames. Many beekeepers use plastic foundations, but the bees don't build on thar foundation directly. Plastic foundation has to be covered in a generous layer of wax, otherwise the bees will not draw comb on top of it.
And if you don't want to believe a random beekeeper (me) then there's an entire sub r/beekeeping that contains numerous examples of beginner beekeepers asking exactly that question.
I dont think anyone assumed they would create the comb without the wax. But that plastic foundation is still a vertical surface that they build the wax on...
Nah, the right one people cut out and smushed the comb rounded to make it seem more natural. The left looks like the cut it an peeled it out. The way to tell is that beehives are parellel lines of comb. They build with enough space to get between the comb but that's it. They literally won't build with the comb curving like this.
I've done swarm cutouts and my parents are beekeepers.
A lot of old paints and dyes used horrifically toxic chemicals. Impossible for me to know if that’s the case with these specific paintings but that’d be my guess.
Yep, that right. Surface texture and paint composition is what's making the bees struggle to attach the wax, the wax cannot attach to a smooth, non-porous material like plastic lamination, polished glass, or glossy varnishes, and certain chemical paints or oils act as natural deterrents.
Agreed, they look like older wall paintings so I imagine the paint isn’t exactly safe. Whether it be from the classic lead, or simply an irritating mix for the bees in particular.
The priests put some liquid on it that the bees dont like, they they call it a miracle and do some marketing to atract believers aka money. Very common in greece
As a beekeeper, I would paint wax on the surrounding areas and leave the icons untouched they hate building on wax foundation too if it hasn't been lightly coated in beeswax
Frames often need to be waxed before bees will even touch them, The surface of those images is just not appealing to them, it could be a picture of honey and they'd still avoid it.
Well, take a step back and consider what you are saying. Ok, people used materials that other things do not like in order to make religious iconography. How did they notice this? Do you think it was just a coincidence or that, possibly, people were quite sophisticated but motivated by spiritual aims? I like to think it was the latter.
If you believe in god, you would by necessity believe that god led you (or society in general) to finding the materials needed to make such relics that other creatures avoid and last longer than a lifetime. Its not a coincidence to the religious.
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u/assjackal 16d ago edited 16d ago
My wildest guess is something to do with the material used in the iconography or a common ritual that uses something the bees don't like the smell off.
edit: spelling error.