Dead(ish) queen

[beebopper]

Picked up my first queen today and marked with tippex.
When I put her down she keeled over and appeared a goner. After a few minutes she appeared fine again. What is going on?

I plan to replace her soon anyway as she arrived with a swarm last year and the colony is quite aggressive.

 

[misterbee82]

Do you believe that the health of the queen being poor could potentially causing the added aggression of the hive?

 

[pargyle]

Picked up my first queen today and marked with tippex.
When I put her down she keeled and appear a goner. After a few minutes she appeared. What is going on?

I plan to replace her soon anyway as she arrived with a swarm last year and the colony is quite aggressive.

Quite normal with some queens when you interfere with them they sort of play dead ... then recover. May be a preservation instinct or shock - who knows ? I once had a rabbit that used to do it when you picked him up as well ...It did the same after mating !

 

[pargyle]

Do you believe that the health of the queen being poor could potentially causing the added aggression of the hive?

Not the health - just her genes - change the queen, change the colony genes for a better tempered set of bees.

 

[Chriszog]

I once had a rabbit that used to do it when you picked him up as well ...It did the same after mating !

You can get arrested for that!!!!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Quite normal with some queens when you interfere with them they sort of play dead ... then recover.

been reported loads of time

It did the same after mating !

Know the feeling

 

[8ace]

You can get arrested for that!!!!

 

[beebopper]

Quite normal with some queens when you interfere with them they sort of play dead ... then recover. May be a preservation instinct or shock - who knows ? I once had a rabbit that used to do it when you picked him up as well ...It did the same after mating !

Thanks, that's reassuring.

 

[pargyle]

You can get arrested for that!!!!

Lightening wit for a Saturday morning !!

 

[Brigsy]

I've no experience relating this to queens, but it is a classic response to attack for a large number of animals. Play dead and hope the predator moves on.

 

[REDWOOD]

Did you mark her with a solvent based paint


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[maddydog]

Picked up my first queen today and marked with tippex.
When I put her down she keeled over and appeared a goner. After a few minutes she appeared fine again. What is going on?

I plan to replace her soon anyway as she arrived with a swarm last year and the colony is quite aggressive.

Dunno about predator/prey responses but I'd probably faint if somebody chucked a bucket of tippex on me! Safer options IMHO

 

[Cussword]

Play dead and hope the predator moves on.

Sounds like Sunday morning when 'The Management' attempts to wake me.


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[Brigsy]

Haha

 

[snelgrove]

Dunno about predator/prey responses but I'd probably faint if somebody chucked a bucket of tippex on me! Safer options IMHO

Think marking with tippex is going to lend problems, used alot years ago, in fact new a beekeeper who used nothing else but tippex and a blade of grass those marker pens which on the whole expensive, are a safer alternative.

 

[wessexmario]

Picked up my first queen today and marked with tippex.
When I put her down she keeled over and appeared a goner. After a few minutes she appeared fine again. What is going on?

two factors here...

the solvent in tippex is a hydrocarbon,
and
bees don't 'breathe' like we do.

they have multiple openings [spiracles] at the end of their trachea across both the thorax and the abdomen. If the tippex or solvent entered or blocked the spiracles it could have momentarily affected her.

 

[beebopper]

Dunno about predator/prey responses but I'd probably faint if somebody chucked a bucket of tippex on me! Safer options IMHO

How useful - well keep your opinions to yourself and don't respond in future.

 

[beebopper]

two factors here...

the solvent in tippex is a hydrocarbon,
and
bees don't 'breathe' like we do.

they have multiple openings [spiracles] at the end of their trachea across both the thorax and the abdomen. If the tippex or solvent entered or blocked the spiracles it could have momentarily affected her.

This did occur to me but nail varnish/paint/glue for disks cannot be any better.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

How useful - well keep your opinions to yourself and don't respond in future.

I can see you're going to be a barrel of fun

 

[maddydog]

How useful - well keep your opinions to yourself and don't respond in future.

Haha, thought my answer was pretty useful but never mind. I look forward to your posts in the big pool