11 May 2026

Her Royal Highness, The Princess Anne

Princess Anne visits the Deaf Academy, Exmouth https://thedeafacademy.ac.uk/



The visit ended with 12-year-old Eco School representative Ivy presenting The Princess Royal with a jar of Royal Deaf Education Trust honey from the Academy’s own beehives.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/princess-anne-praises-deaf-academy-080400476.html




08 May 2026

Sir David Attenborough




The idea that the pollen 'jumps' from flower to bee is cute. Note that when a positively charged bee visits a negatively charged flower and the electric field is neutralised or reduced, the flower doesn't "send a signal;" it's merely that the electric field is neutralised or reduced, which a bee may be able to detect.  Does the lack of negative field from a flower affect bee behaviour? Is the electric field effect strong enough to draw (as in attract) bees to flowers. Odd that Sir D talks about pollen transfer being affected by the electric field, and concludes that the reduced electric field after a bee's visit is a signal about nectar.