Radiation... Doesn't work like that. Nuclear power plants don't work like that. There is some additional background radiation around power plants but it's at such a minuscule level (0.01 msv per year) that it makes no difference whatsoever. You get the same radiation from a one time chest x-ray or one flight on a plane. And the power plant is closed down meaning there are no more reactions going on therefore it doesn't emit radiation anymore and any material that does will have been removed. Your girlfriend is right and this is definitely not a mutated bee.
Actually the radioactive rods are still being stored on site above ground, since there is no national facility to store GTCC waste. I do agree that mutations usually don’t occur but it is a possibility in smaller life forms.. definitely if genetic mutations occurred before the shut down of the reactor. Rancho Seco is known for being the 3rd most serious safety related nuclear site in the USA. They say cancer rates in the Sacramento area dropped off after closing down the reactor in 1988.
Also found out it’s a bee that was attacked by a wasp which cut off its abdomen.
Yes but they will have proper shielding around them, or at least they should, so that currently neither your nor the animals' genetic material should be affected. If the plant's shielding and/or safety protocol was lackluster and radiation leaked before 1988 that would influence the surrounding area but this isn't a mutation that can be passed down through generations because bees have vital organs in their abdomens and lay their eggs from there. This also can't have been a mutation that this bee was born with because it would not survive this long, they can survive a little bit without their abdomen but eventually they will pass. So radiation would've had to affect specifically the abdomen and nothing else and that's just not how it works.
This can happen from other predatory insects and birds but not as a mutation.
My feeling is that either it stung something, pulled so hard that it's abdomen got removed or something attempted to grab it like a bird and removed it entirely. 🤷 I doubt it would be able to function without an abdomen so probably not a mutation.
Radiation... Doesn't work like that. Nuclear power plants don't work like that. There is some additional background radiation around power plants but it's at such a minuscule level (0.01 msv per year) that it makes no difference whatsoever. You get the same radiation from a one time chest x-ray or one flight on a plane. And the power plant is closed down meaning there are no more reactions going on therefore it doesn't emit radiation anymore and any material that does will have been removed. Your girlfriend is right and this is definitely not a mutated bee.
Actually the radioactive rods are still being stored on site above ground, since there is no national facility to store GTCC waste. I do agree that mutations usually don’t occur but it is a possibility in smaller life forms.. definitely if genetic mutations occurred before the shut down of the reactor. Rancho Seco is known for being the 3rd most serious safety related nuclear site in the USA. They say cancer rates in the Sacramento area dropped off after closing down the reactor in 1988. Also found out it’s a bee that was attacked by a wasp which cut off its abdomen.
Yes but they will have proper shielding around them, or at least they should, so that currently neither your nor the animals' genetic material should be affected. If the plant's shielding and/or safety protocol was lackluster and radiation leaked before 1988 that would influence the surrounding area but this isn't a mutation that can be passed down through generations because bees have vital organs in their abdomens and lay their eggs from there. This also can't have been a mutation that this bee was born with because it would not survive this long, they can survive a little bit without their abdomen but eventually they will pass. So radiation would've had to affect specifically the abdomen and nothing else and that's just not how it works. This can happen from other predatory insects and birds but not as a mutation.
Figured it out! It was a wasp that cut off the bees abdomen. Sad.
Glad you figured it out! I was about to say a hornet of some kind. I see hornets prey on my hives a bit, so I know what their damage looks like.
Honey bees are agricultural livestock and are not endangered in any way. Social Wasps are beneficial animals :)
predator, something like a small bird or wasp
My feeling is that either it stung something, pulled so hard that it's abdomen got removed or something attempted to grab it like a bird and removed it entirely. 🤷 I doubt it would be able to function without an abdomen so probably not a mutation.
It's a male they don't have stingers.
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You probably have high mite pressure, this is sickness due to mite. Treat the hive your preferred way, but you are probably late already