Managed Pollinator Coordinated Agricultura Project - The Stationary Apiary Coodinated Agricultural Projrct: A View from the Front Lines

摘要

There are many days when I wish my laboratory was as organized as a honey bee hive. If only my routine, were dictated by a delicate bouquet of chemical signals rather than a series of list-serve emails and dense protocols. Imagine a staff whose patterns were linked by a su-perorganism mind set receiving instructions with one interpretation and a common goal. We could rise above the petty disputes over smelly boots left in the field truck or whose turn it is to count frames of bees and simply function. Collecting data would be perfectly uniform and natural. However, this level of intuitive collaboration would put me and my fellow research technicians out of jobs. It is because we are clumsy, conflicted humans that the job of the research technician is so critical.