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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45389 Location: Essex
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45389 Location: Essex
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45374 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45374 Location: yes
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45374 Location: yes
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45374 Location: yes
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45374 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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Nice bee picture Dpack. As far as I know they are similar to honey bees in that the ones out now are sterile females/workers. The queen starts the colony and lays eggs, then has to continue looking after them until there are sufficient workers to take over the care and feeding duties. At the end of the season, the queen breeds young queens and drones (males), they mate, and the hive runs down. The young mated queens, and possibly the old one, find somewhere to overwinter while the rest of the colony dies out. Cycle starts again in the spring.
A policeman friend of ours told us that he once nicked a couple of me out in the early hours with dirty shovels and got them for badger digging. His colleague asked how he could be certain and get a conviction, so friend said that with dirty spades at that hour they were either badger digging or burying a body, and they would prefer to plead guilty to the badger digging.
We have badgers, and I know where the main sets are, but that is not common knowledge, although some of the outliers are pretty obvious. Think the males inhabit them when the cubs get too much in the main sett, or females throw them out to look after cubs. |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45374 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45374 Location: yes
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
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