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Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: South West

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 10:52 am Post subject: Ow
One just stung me. Fatherless little winged git.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 11:06 am Post subject:
I'm sure it's good for you. Keeps you youthful, virile or something like that.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45517
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 11:08 am Post subject:
Good for arthritis

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 11:44 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Good for arthritis

He may not want arthritis.

ksia

Joined: 17 May 2006
Posts: 2320
Location: Mayenne, France

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 12:21 pm Post subject:
Probably not the first brown bear to be stung by a bee.

gz

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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 12:46 pm Post subject:

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 3:53 pm Post subject:
What were you doing to annoy it?

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Ow

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

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 6:32 pm Post subject:

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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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 7:43 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

What were you doing to annoy it?

Oh that's right. Blame the human.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 7:48 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Sun May 24, 09 8:40 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Mon May 25, 09 3:10 am Post subject: Re: Ow

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
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon May 25, 09 6:45 am Post subject: Re: Ow

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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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Mon May 25, 09 8:02 am Post subject:

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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