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  1. Anthony Appleyard

    Transplanting one queen cell

    How often does a beekeeper fínd a hive "hopelessly queenless" and remedy the matter by transplanting a single queen cell with a queen egg or queen larva in, or two or more at a time? In a book about beekeeping about the 1960's I read that at the end-of-winter cleanout a beekeeper was watching a...
  2. Anthony Appleyard

    Beekeepers' knowledge before the movable frame hive was invented

    Before the movable frame beehive was invented, the usual hive was the skep. The Roman writer and poet Virgil, writing in his Georgics about beekeeping, knew about queen bees (but he called them kings), and he recommended removing the queens' wings, likeliest to prevent swarming; but among the...
  3. Anthony Appleyard

    A use for drones hatched from laying worker eggs?

    Drones hatched from laying worker eggs :: can they successfully mate with a virgin queen on her nuptial flight? If so, evolution likely created the ability for a hopelessly queenless colony to develop laying workers as a last-ditch attempt by the colony to perpetuate its genes.
  4. Anthony Appleyard

    Better weather soon at last?

    This evening the BBC TV weatherman promised us in Britain a big anticyclone near us, bringing a south wind from the Sahara.
  5. Anthony Appleyard

    Bees that attack varroa mites

    Is here much proportion of honeybees that clean varroa off themselves or each other? I read somewhere about a hive of bees which routinely bit the legs off any varroa mites that they found. See Acarinarium - Wikipedia for species of bees or wasps that carry particular species of mites about and...
  6. Anthony Appleyard

    Evolutionary history of honeybees

    Wikipedia does not help much here. How much is known about the evolutionary history of honeybees, from fossils, or from how far genetic mutation drift has separated honeybees' DNA from the DNA of their nearest non-honeybee relatives? It seems likely that honeybees as we call them are descended...
  7. Anthony Appleyard

    Africanized bees

    See Africanized bee :: to what extent can it happen that such bees may evolve to becoming more gentle because, if bees en masse attack a target unnecessarily, each bee attacks and dies, as it is with bees stinging, and thus more aggressive bees lose more foragers in each attack?
  8. Anthony Appleyard

    Unusually-built comb

    See for 628DirtRooster Bees at time 8:14 removing a stray bees' nest where the bees had built comb very abnormally, "like a coral reef".
  9. Anthony Appleyard

    Hive was being robbed, so the bees built new comb in open-air below the hive box

    See by Jeff Horchoff Bees, about time 4:40, for when a hive was being robbed, so the bees built new comb in open-air below the hive box.
  10. Anthony Appleyard

    Enormous stray honeybee nest

    See (18.58 minutes) Youtube video "After Hearing Noises Behind A Wall, A Family Discovered Something Hidden Inside" for an enormous stray honeybee nest found between walls in a house :: and it was made of only 2 enormous combs.
  11. Anthony Appleyard

    Useful mites?

    Have you heard of any sort of mite being useful to bees? Some mites are useful to solitary bees: see Acarinarium - Wikipedia . According to Wikipedia, facilities for useful mites to ride on female carpenter bees have evolved to an extreme, even to species where the whole front end of the female...
  12. Anthony Appleyard

    Bees per hive per year

    If a hive's queen (or succession of queens) lay n worker eggs in a year, and thus about n worker bees have lived in that hive in that year, what does that hive's maximum worker workforce in that year tend to be?
  13. Anthony Appleyard

    Another way to catch/stop small hive beetle?

    In this Youtube video , around time 25:44, 628DirtRooster Bees is removing a stray bees' nest which is neavily loaded with small hive beetle, and in the nest area is much of a sort of white insulation padding (?fibreglass?), and he noticed that many small hive beetles tried to crawl over the...
  14. Anthony Appleyard

    Queen bees "tooting" and "quacking"

    Recent newspaper publicity about queen bees "tooting" and "quacking" seem to derive from this new scientific article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66115-5 The prediction of swarming in honeybee colonies using vibrational spectra Michael-Thomas Ramsey, Martin Bencsik, Michael Ian...
  15. Anthony Appleyard

    Another way to attract a swarm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRoszURcgKY ::that Youtube video shows a Japanese beekeeper in springtime. He puts out an empty wooden beehive, and by it a potted orchid plant in flower of a particular species whose flowers smell like the queen of a dangerous species of hornet. Bees come in...
  16. Anthony Appleyard

    Lemongrass oil

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbopogon and https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cymbopogon list many species of the grass genus Cymbopogon. Which of those species are useful to beekeepers?
  17. Anthony Appleyard

    Beekeepers' slang

    Dictionaries and wikis about beekeeping terms are there for the searching; but is there any sort of collection of unofficial or semi-jocular terms? One such term that I heard today on a Youtube video from USA about removing stray bee nests from buildings was "cow tongue" for a tall thin comb...
  18. Anthony Appleyard

    Reading the waggle dance

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance :: How often has a beekeeper been able to watch a bee performing the waggle dance, and from it to find where and how far is whatever the bee has found? The bees do so routinely; but how often does a human translate the message in the waggle dance?
  19. Anthony Appleyard

    Bees and mites

    Mites in honeybees are merely a pest. But the females of some solitary bees (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acarinarium ) have a special place to carry mites as they fly, and leave those mites in their nests, and there those mites guard the solitary bee's larvae against pests by eating those...
  20. Anthony Appleyard

    Bees and mites

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