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Me neither, I plan on continuing to call it a colony as well. Scot McPherson ... -- Scot McPherson, CISSP, MCSA McPherson Family Farms Le Claire, IA, USA...
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OOWONBS@...
billsf9c
Aug 30, 2009 7:36 pm
Re: Glue...? Certainly glue is used. BUT some "circular"; hives are using various things with which to creat, "strapping," similar to the bands on buckets and...
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superbees@...
superbees...
Aug 30, 2009 10:11 pm
Absolutely; it's a great word; I still use it when describing the land where you live! LOL :-) Tim. England. Scot Wrote: "Me neither, I plan on continuing to...
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Ilmrs Mrsils
kamzolis
Aug 31, 2009 5:41 am
In latvian language bee colony is much like Bogdan mentioned, but probably with different flavour. It is like rural family in farm a hundred years ago when all...
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IlmÄrs MÄrs...
kamzolis
Aug 31, 2009 6:02 am
I don't care if someone trying insult me or others, so I do not think that such comments must be deleted. My english is bad enough, that probably I do not...
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bogdan_4017
Aug 31, 2009 7:09 am
I guess Rusian tradition to use the term "bee-family" is quiet exact. When a new swarm goes away in looking for a new home - it is similar to the process of...
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davidlcroteau@...
dvdcrowtoe
Aug 31, 2009 7:52 am
Saw dead pupa & drones on landing boards of both my hives yesterday morning 6:30am, you have to look early because the bees lug everything off by 9am. Dav ...
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Bernhard Heuvel
zaunreiter
Aug 31, 2009 10:34 am
... Well, there is no strict definition of "Bien". To my understanding there is no physical boundary, because Bien also could mean the network of bee colonies...
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David Heaf
davidheaf
Aug 31, 2009 11:10 am
Dav wrote: "Saw dead pupa & drones on landing boards of both my hives yesterday morning 6:30am, you have to look early because the bees lug everything off by...
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David Heaf
davidheaf
Aug 31, 2009 11:11 am
Serg wrote: "Thus the analogy with a family is organical part of Slovyan language tradition - there are "a mother" and their children in a bee-family." ...
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davidlcroteau@...
dvdcrowtoe
Aug 31, 2009 11:27 am
... From: "David Heaf" <david@...> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 7:10 AM To: "Warrebeekeeping" <warrebeekeeping@...> Subject: Re:...
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lgttlgtt
Aug 31, 2009 12:27 pm
A few weeks after I installed two 3# Russian bee packages one hive seemed to be not as robust as the other. This weekend after returning from three weeks of...
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moersch51
Aug 31, 2009 1:21 pm
Hi Larry- Your description invites a few questions. ... Did you ever actually see worker brood in this hive? The photo with the strange queen shows a few...
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lgttlgtt
Aug 31, 2009 2:39 pm
"moersch51" wrote: Your description invites a few questions. Did you ever actually see worker brood in this hive? The photo with the strange queen shows a few...
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bobcat4850
Aug 31, 2009 2:55 pm
... I can put a case for it, with the help of our Shorter Oxford ... Kudos to you David I like this shorter explanation of what ever it is we have been talking...
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Ben P
bfoldes
Aug 31, 2009 3:52 pm
Clever. I don't think it would work well below the first hive body, unless you left ever other gap open to allow bees and airflow up to the higher bodies....
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warrebeek
Aug 31, 2009 3:56 pm
... I'll have to disagree with this as well. "Of one kind" implies similar if not identical species, banding together--somehow--for mutual benefit. This only...
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Bil Harley
bilharley...
Aug 31, 2009 4:18 pm
In his post “2.1. Re: Das Bien†I think David Heaf said almost all there is to say on this subject. I too shall stick with "colony". in French “Bienâ€...
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warrebeek
Aug 31, 2009 4:20 pm
... One suspects that those who already think the Bien word-concept is ridiculous are gonna have their gears stripped by introduction of the Gaia hypothesis....
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Bernhard Heuvel
zaunreiter
Aug 31, 2009 4:48 pm
_Citation_: V. destructor preferentially infests drone brood (Fuchs, 1990, 1992), overcoming the protection from environment afforded by the honey bee nest....
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Ben P
bfoldes
Aug 31, 2009 4:54 pm
Ilmars, I'm a good example of that:) I don't think any one was seriously upset by this, it's really a non-issue. Everyone can call a colony by whatever their...
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Ben P
bfoldes
Aug 31, 2009 4:55 pm
Ilmars, I also meant to say, that you certainly didn't need to apologize for anything. Ben ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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davidlcroteau@...
dvdcrowtoe
Aug 31, 2009 7:03 pm
... As a Warre beekeeper I'll have to let both bees & mites self-regulate . Dav...
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bogdan_4017
Aug 31, 2009 7:22 pm
... Why? Is there big lateral burden during using of the hive? ... Is there any traditional glues without off-gas and waterproof? Hungarian method of making...
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David Heaf
davidheaf
Aug 31, 2009 9:10 pm
The 4th edition of Warré's 'Beekeeping for All', translated from 'Apiculture pour Tous' was issued today and is uploaded at: ...
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David Heaf
davidheaf
Aug 31, 2009 9:10 pm
Serg wrote: "At http://books.google.com/books?id=93VlAAAAMAAJ&hl=en I found a book "The apiarian's manual..." by T. M. Howatson (Edinbourgh,1827)." Thanks for...
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billsf9c
Aug 31, 2009 10:22 pm
... If it's a tree cavity, no. If humans handle them, not much, unless dropped on a corner, but still it is relatively very small... though the simplest Warre'...
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David Heaf
davidheaf
Aug 31, 2009 10:38 pm
Ben wrote: "...may be some outcry on this as being very non-Warre,..." As the glass is only between top box top-bars (spars) it takes the place of the top-bar...
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fritzkal
Sep 1, 2009 12:49 am
... Untill last year I had serious doubts, but I am starting to believe that European Bees are able to quite rapidly evolve with Varroa, be it vertical,...
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moersch51
Sep 1, 2009 2:59 am
Hi Larry- ... package was installed. The candy plug was gone and queen had been released. The bees were drawing comb in the top hive box. A released queen does...
