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Brownbear



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 10:52 am    Post subject: Ow Reply with quote
    

One just stung me.

Fatherless little winged git.

Cathryn



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm sure it's good for you. Keeps you youthful, virile or something like that.

tahir



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Good for arthritis

Silas



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
Good for arthritis


He may not want arthritis.

ksia



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Probably not the first brown bear to be stung by a bee.

gz



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jamanda
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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

What were you doing to annoy it?

Tavascarow



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 6:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Ow Reply with quote
    

Brownbear wrote:
One just stung me.

Fatherless little winged git.

To be a pedant only male bees are fatherless & they don't sting.
Hope the little darling doesn't get blood poisoning.

Tavascarow



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cathryn wrote:
I'm sure it's good for you. Keeps you youthful, virile or something like that.

Depends where it stings you.
Better than viagra in the right place.

sean
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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
What were you doing to annoy it?


Oh that's right. Blame the human.

Green Rosie



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

A hornet was flying round here today. It's now a dead hornet I'm afraid. I react very badly to wasp stings and don't want to take any chances with their larger cousins. The boys were fascinated with it mind you but an older neighbouring boy wouldn't come near it til I had squashed it again to make sure it really was dead!

joanne



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 09 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Well I've been through mine today and they were as good as gold - then went on a mercy dash over to a friends who was worried they had charged queen cells - thankfully it was a false alarm but the little madams stung me 3 times - I think it may be necessary to requeen her next year - she's a right narky madam even though she came from my stock originally - she's last years queen

Brownbear



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PostPosted: Mon May 25, 09 3:10 am    Post subject: Re: Ow Reply with quote
    

Tavascarow wrote:
Brownbear wrote:
One just stung me.

Fatherless little winged git.

To be a pedant only male bees are fatherless & they don't sting.



I was trying to avoid the term 'bastard'.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Mon May 25, 09 6:45 am    Post subject: Re: Ow Reply with quote
    

Tavascarow wrote:
Brownbear wrote:
One just stung me.

Fatherless little winged git.

To be a pedant only male bees are fatherless & they don't sting.
Hope the little darling doesn't get blood poisoning.


How does that work then? Why aren't females fatherless, too? I'm ignorant of bees, and I don't even like honey much... Coming from a line of bee keepers, I think I'm a disappointment to my mother, grandmother, and her mother before her. Old witches...

jamanda
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PostPosted: Mon May 25, 09 8:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The Queen mates with a number of males when she is young. She then doesn't leave the hive again unless she swarms. Just stays there laying eggs. She can lay diploid (fertilised) eggs which will grow into female workers, or haploid (unfertilised) eggs which will develop into male drones. A very few of the worker eggs will be treated differently by means of the food they are fed and the hormones they are exposed to and will develop into queens.

If that happens the old queen will take off with the flying bees from the colony and the new one will take over laying duties after a nuptial flight.

The drones just move round from hive to hive being fed and mating with any random virgin queens the meet on the way. All very nice, until the beginning of Winter when they get kicked out to starve in the cold.

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