A swarm in may ?????

[richardbees]

///please someone post a rhyme fo fit February
...or I'm in for a sleepless night

 

[itma]

Good old Wiki says:

"The holder is also traditionally rewarded with a butt of canary (wine), or sack, approximately 477 litres (105 gallons), of sherry."

Dusty

Yes, Wikipedia's punctuation can be a bit dodgy!

Its a Butt of Sack or Canary (ie sherry).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_(wine) "Sack is an antiquated wine term referring to white fortified wine imported from mainland Spain or the Canary Islands."

And a Butt is a big barrel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_wine_cask_units "The butt (from the medieval French and Italian botte) or pipe was half a tun, approximately 475 to 480 litres. Therefore the imperial butt was 105 imperial gallons ..."

You wouldn't get sherry in a sack, but you could get Sack in a Butt.

Good old Wiki indeed.

 

[pargyle]

///please someone post a rhyme fo fit February
...or I'm in for a sleepless night

There was a beekeeper in Tipperary
Who opened his hive in February
It was just for a look but it was cold as luck
and the whole hive then died ... ain't that scary !

Boom boom ...

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Yes, Wikipedia's punctuation can be a bit dodgy!

Its a Butt of Sack or Canary (ie sherry).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_(wine) "Sack is an antiquated wine term referring to white fortified wine imported from mainland Spain or the Canary Islands."

And a Butt is a big barrel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_wine_cask_units

Good old Wiki indeed.

Butt (see what I did there?) as I read that wiki entry, "Canary" sack is different from "Sherris" sack? They are different sorts of fortified white wine.

What the heck has this to do with beekeeping, anyway?
Enough to drive me to....

Dusty

 

[richardbees]

......suppose that'll have to do, it's getting late

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

///please someone post a rhyme fo fit February
...or I'm in for a sleepless night

A swarm in Febru-ary is probably Kashmiri.

D

 

[pargyle]

......suppose that'll have to do, it's getting late

There's gratitude for you ... Dusty and me busting our guts to turn out shakespearian quality sonnets and all we get is 'that'll have to do !'

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

There's gratitude for you ... Dusty and me busting our guts to turn out shakespearian quality sonnets and all we get is 'that'll have to do !'

Yeah! And I'm going to flounce out of here in a theatrical manner!

Cummon, Pargyle. We know when we're not welcome!

Dusty

 

[Tabby15]

Don't want to break up poets corner (and reading this last night made me laugh alot) but in my practical bee keeping guide published in 1932 (!) the rhyme is said to be "a swarm of bees in July is worth a butterfly". They don't have a rhyme for February though...

 

[richardbees]

going to flounce out of here in a theatrical manner

thanks a bundle...that image has ensured tonight's sleep is also ruined

 

[itma]

... in my practical bee keeping guide published in 1932 (!) the rhyme is said to be "a swarm of bees in July is worth a butterfly". ...

At that price, I'm sure there would be no shortage of buyers this year ...

 

[Pete Nicholson]

I took a swarm in May - and they are beautiful. Docile, mated queen after a week and I strimmed right up to the Nuc without a suit on; almost they were saying " hi there - would you like a cup of tea? come around - nice to see you"
can't believe my luck particularly as I have lost a colony this last week after getting them through the appalling weather/winter (just) and have admitted defeat by solar extracting the wax/sterilising the frames @ 125°C. BTW the honey left after this temperature smells horrible and will be discarded!
P.