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Bill Husztek wrote: "my question is how durable will the combs be to being shaken and torqued with the inevitable turns and stops and starts." The combs in a...
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Jacqueline and Joseph...
friendlyhaven
May 19, 2013 5:58 pm
I agree with your observations. I believe bees who take up doing this are propagating a response to a disease that means they can deal with it. They clean up...
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Tim Evans
boldlibrarian
May 19, 2013 6:28 pm
Mark B wrote: "both of my hives seem to be ejecting drone pupae" ... Not very plausible, on second thoughts. Both my hives have live drones today. Swarm watch...
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Bill Wood
billrwood
May 19, 2013 7:21 pm
... I have been given a thriving 4 hive body tall Warre hive from another beekeeper that I will need to move approximately 12 miles, which would be about a 20...
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bilrhonealpes
May 19, 2013 7:26 pm
... ______________________________________________ A synonym for `coussin' is `calfeutrage' which could be translated as draught proofing. Perhaps the...
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Bill Wood
billrwood
May 19, 2013 7:52 pm
... Quel understatement! Thermal cushions are very well known. In flying, we were taught that a cushion is the body of air which supports an aircraft,...
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David Heaf
davidheaf
May 19, 2013 9:25 pm
Bill W wrote: "That "screened bottom" could be a piece of plywood with a big hole covered with window screen that remains open to the surrounding air during...
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Heidi
askthebees
May 19, 2013 10:24 pm
Some of my colonies have also been ejecting drones. The ones I have seen are not pigmented and I therefore assume that their non-fit status is detected through...
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Matthew Groves
mr_groves
May 20, 2013 1:59 am
I need help decoding some bee behavior. I have a bait hive (an empty two box warré) that is roughly 50yards from one hive, and 10 yards from another. It has...
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billsf9c
May 20, 2013 3:06 am
... "I did resort to a rolled newspaper, lit and blown out, for a little >smoke." ... No- Tight money and haven't needed it. Packages and the swarm I dealt...
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santiagosabejas
May 20, 2013 4:38 am
http://www.nmbees.com/ http://youtu.be/GNyA4dbedAY Are those bear cubs?...
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Lynn Bybee
glbybeeut
May 20, 2013 4:43 am
-- As a French linguist this has aroused my interest. When I got interested in Warré hives and read about the "quilt" I didn't see any correlation between...
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dragos margineanu
dragosmargin...
May 20, 2013 8:16 am
Hello,For 25 min (even for 1 h), you can split it for moving. Then, when you arrived, you get unites the two parts of the hive (with or without a...
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bejolino_
bejolino
May 20, 2013 9:00 am
Just bees e joint the smell of lemongrass... :-)...
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mikebispham
May 20, 2013 9:46 am
I think your c. is a possibility, on the theoretical grounds that such behaviour would supply a distinct advantage. Bee 'bagsy', and an insect version of...
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bilrhonealpes
May 20, 2013 10:40 am
Touché Bill, But in your examples, the cushion is to be found underneath and not above and when translating one considers the function the word describes so,...
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a_sinful_bear
May 20, 2013 2:28 pm
So Saturday I set off in my "large farm vehicle" (Honda Civic) with the bin in the back, chased by husband in Jeep with more containers to take advantage of a...
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litt1e_john
May 20, 2013 4:07 pm
Context my friends, context. Whilst it is true that coussin can mean 'cushion' or 'pillow', but also hassock (foot-stool) or pad (as in 'coussins de feutre',...
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Tim Evans
boldlibrarian
May 20, 2013 5:10 pm
... well, yes, but that could be anywhere from the Scillies to the Orkneys, couldn't it? Via Birmingham and Beachy Head, as Chesterton might have said. I know...
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beek999
May 20, 2013 5:42 pm
Thanks for the book tip! Still chewing on this issue (newly hived bees leaving the hive) I realised I didn't build my Warre boxes too carefully: As the...
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Matt Fearnow
mefearnow
May 20, 2013 5:52 pm
I don't think it would. Reading the Honeybee Democracy, Seeley did lot's of experiments for cracks/holes and dampness, and found that neither of those...
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Frank Van de Putte
frank_vandep...
May 20, 2013 6:06 pm
Mike wrote: Has this queen thrived for 3 years without treatment? If so, treat her as legitimate royalty! Yes. This queen was born in 2010. In autumn of 2011...
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mark1955uk
May 20, 2013 6:54 pm
Thanks to everybody that replied to Drones out, it gives me a bit of reassurance that it is happening to others also. I still do not know quite what they are...
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eccentricbeekeeper
eccentricbee...
May 20, 2013 7:00 pm
Tom Seeley video link: http://www.cornell.edu/video/honeybee-decision-making http://www.cornell.edu/video/tom-seeley-honeybee-democracy ...
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eccentricbeekeeper
eccentricbee...
May 20, 2013 7:12 pm
I had a swarm last Friday that seemed a little "flighty". Rather than take a chance I gave them some comb with open brood, some capped brood and some pollen....
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David Heaf
davidheaf
May 20, 2013 8:37 pm
Ben wrote: "I have some small splits (1 to 2 mm) " To my eye it looks rather beautifully made. I can't add anything else to what has already been said. ...
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mikebispham
May 20, 2013 8:48 pm
[Frank] ... behaviour too. I think she survived because she could do this already twice.< Hmmm, yes and no. Swarming allows the colony (genes) to survive by ...
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uncollandy
May 20, 2013 8:51 pm
I was thinking the same as David - nicely made. (A palace even, compared with some of mine) The good news is that the bees don't seem to mind gaps, and will...
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eccentricbeekeeper
eccentricbee...
1:59 am
... Your hive looks great. A slight gap such as that is not an issue and certainly not the reason the the swarm left. There could have been a queen issue. If...
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Md Schwartz
md.schwartz
3:36 am
Never, ever, ever had bees come up via USPS. Always via UPS. The postal increase is about on par for a flat rate box out of Alaska to the '48. Our European...
