Difficult decision - but killed the Queen.

[Swarm]

And as others will tell you there is one individual who acts like an arrogant, all knowing, pedant, probably because it is so simple to let your fingers do the talking on internet forums.
There is a huge difference between offering good advice and simply being rude.

090 gets a regular fix of talking others down ... on a forum. In my experience, people like this are rather less vocal in circumstances that don't involve hiding behind a keyboard.

My post to the OP's remark about doing the right thing happened to appear just after this guys and he just can't resist a condescending retort, thinking I'm answering his post. I was probably still writing mine when he posted his (I didn't even know he had posted). No doubt realising afterwards, he then puts this down to the fact HE challenged it. Delusions of grandeur?

Get a life and while you're at it, a course in manners wouldn't go amiss either.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

I like RAB's postings.


As someone who knows next to nowt, I find his advice clear and well-reasoned.

More to the point, he always encourages people to think instead of just making a knee-jerk reaction to things. And he does stress that there is often more than one answer.

Yes, sometimes he's a bit sharp - particularly with people he sees as opinionated. And sometimes I (again, knowing nowt) think someone else has a better option.

But I trust him.

More than some others.

Dusty

 

[Erichalfbee]

 

[Hivemaker.]

I like RAB's postings.


As someone who knows next to nowt, I find his advice clear and well-reasoned.

More to the point, he always encourages people to think instead of just making a knee-jerk reaction to things. And he does stress that there is often more than one answer.

Yes, sometimes he's a bit sharp - particularly with people he sees as opinionated. And sometimes I (again, knowing nowt) think someone else has a better option.

But I trust him.

More than some others.

Dusty

I believe you have summed this up very well Dusty,i also agree,all in all a very good and helpful poster on this forum.

 

[Lesley Hoppy]

RAB has pointed me in the right direction on many occasions and his advice - though occasionally brusque - is much appreciated. Sometimes it is easy to read the wrong 'tone' in the written word - but I make it a rule never to take offence - I have far too much to learn!

 

[Swarm]

I believe you have summed this up very well Dusty,i also agree,all in all a very good and helpful poster on this forum.

Yes, I agree.
If you are prepared to put up with an attitude problem, ignore snide comments and downright rudeness, fair enough.
This had nothing to do with advice though did it? Simply jumping to conclusions in the quest to rubbish my post before thinking and noticing I posted one minute after he did. Perhaps I was replying to the OP?
Pathetic.

 

[oliver90owner]

Swarm, I don't usually take umbrance, but to you - yes.

I, at least have the guts to apologise when I read a post wrongly or get hold of the stick at the wrong end.

You don't seem to care if you post trash - you just defend it. It is you that is pathetic.

I could list previous threads where your attitude has been less than polite - along with the flawed 'advice' given so freely - such as pages 1-3 on this thread (http://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=16856&page=4) and postings #17 and #19 on this thread (http://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=229997#post229997). These were not the first examples by any means.

Now you are trying to tell everyone you must have been typing your response at the time. On past evidence you were just trying to be contrary, and your one-liner back-fired on you!

Please try to actually read what has already been written, then think about what to post. Thinking is a good skill but may not be your forte, it seems.

Goodnight, and I think it time for the moderator's intervention if you respond again in your childish manner.

 

[Swarm]

Now you are trying to tell everyone you must have been typing your response at the time. On past evidence you were just trying to be contrary, and your one-liner back-fired on you!

Once again, believe what you want. Postings are listed broken down only to the nearest minute, shame in this case eh?
6:10 pm
6:11 pm
As I have already stated I was probably still typing my reply when you hit submit on yours. Can't see that?
Showthreads are quite meaningless, since your rudeness is evident practically every post you submit and I'm certainly not the first to mention it and I don't consider it childish to object to bad manners.

Now sit on your fingers for a while and consider you jumped to the wrong conclusion this time. If you'd like to apologise then I'll accept.

 

[psafloyd]

I could list previous threads where your attitude has been less than polite - along with the flawed 'advice' given so freely - such as pages 1-3 on this thread (http://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=16856&page=4) and postings #17 and #19 on this thread (http://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=229997#post229997). These were not the first examples by any means.

RAB, you tried and failed to take the moral high ground there. If you're going to say "could" point out Swarm's errors, it is petty to then go and do so.

Anyway, seconds out, round two...

 

[MandF]

For the record, I also agree he could do with an attitude check. Unnecessarily petty and critical. It isn't difficult to give advice and opinion in a community spirit, everyone seems to manage it ok.

 

[Lesley Hoppy]

It appears to be a supersedure cell. The colony is replacing the queen for their own reason. The newly emerged queen would normally get mated and start laying. At some point after that the old queen will disappear. They may well coexist,mother and daughter, for some time. The point is that at all times there is a queen of sorts. By your removing the queen the bees will probably make emergency cells. These will not overtake the supersedure cell you saw but what will happen is that this emerged queen might swarm. The subsequent emergency queens might well swarm in succession till the colony is much depleted.

You will have to look into the hive 5 days after you nobbled the queen to remove these emergency cells.

Five days have passed since my rash assassination of the queen - so I had a quick look today to assess the situation. There were a couple of cups on one on the outer frames - but not what I would call a 'rash of emergency cells'.
The queen cell is huge, sealed and has a sort of bulge at the base where it is attached to the comb - a bit like a testicle - apologies but that is the best way to describe it!
I would have liked to remove it - in case it is a small Q cell but it would be impossible to do without damage to the main sealed Q cell....
Is this normal?

 

[Erichalfbee]

I was going to suggest a photo but that means opening up again.
Fingers crossed then.
Let us know how you get on.