Grumpy Bees

[Fritillary]

Or buy a mated Queen..

 

[Finman]

Or buy a mated Queen..

It was bought mated queen.

 

[Finman]

Get a life

 

[Wingy]

This week I've been working close to my hive preparing an area that it will be moved to in winter. At one stage I had my backside leaning on the hive while cutting some scaffold tube supports with an angle grinder. I was then less than 3' away cutting some pallets with a chainsaw to make the platform to sit the hives on. The bees were very busy in and out but showed no interest in me. They are unbelievably calm bees just how I like them

 

[Finman]

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Actually I have so much spare hives and nucs that I can eliminate unwanted queens.
That I am doing just now. I am late in winter feeding.

Many hives superceded their queen and I have not met all those workers.

I eliminate extra queens, whose parents were not very good..

I bought some new queens too. IT is only way to compare, are my own reared queens good.

 

[Millet]

It was bought mated queen.

Rubbish stock by the sound of things, buy another mated Queen from somewhere else.

 

[Finman]

Rubbish stock by the sound of things, buy another mated Queen from somewhere else.

Sounds like a Voice of Intelligentzia!


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[PaulCarroll]

Finman,

If I received that number of stings in one round of inspection, I am afraid I would have to consider whether it was any longer enjoyable. I would also probably be very unwell or dead as SWMBO would have killed me for being so stupid!! You are a braver man than me my friend!!


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[Poly Hive]

Not showing off but frankly 70 is nothing.

A really tetchy hive will sting in the thousands.

Sadly been there this season as previously reported.

PH

 

[Finman]

Not showing off but frankly 70 is nothing.

PH

That is true, at least to me.
I nurse them with bare hands.

I had white short and black suspenders. They hit into my right shoulder at least 20 stings. Odd place. Not a sting into left shoulder.

My neighbour, the beekeeper must go to hospital if he gets few stings.

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But if bees get some stings into clothes, and poison starts to stink, that is the the target.

When I had black bees on good old days, I had always washing water bucket that I can wash poison from my hands and wrists.

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[Stiffy]

That is true, at least to me.
I nurse them with bare hands.

I had white short and black suspenders. They hit into my right shoulder at least 20 stings. Odd place. Not a sting into left shoulder.

My neighbour, the beekeeper must go to hospital if he gets few stings.

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But if bees get some stings into clothes, and poison starts to stink, that is the the target.

When I had black bees on good old days, I had always washing water bucket that I can wash poison from my hands and wrists.

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"I had white short and black suspenders"
Must be lost in translation but very sure I would not want to see this, made me shudder thinking about it ..........
S

 

[enrico]

"I had white short and black suspenders"
Must be lost in translation but very sure I would not want to see this, made me shudder thinking about it ..........
S

Now we really DO NEED A PHOTO OF THAT!
it made me laugh when STIFFY commented on it too!

 

[Stiffy]

Now we really DO NEED A PHOTO OF THAT!
it made me laugh when STIFFY commented on it too!

Please nooooo, I have a horrid image in my head already of a Monty Python lumber jack type figure in suspenders and shorts, tending bees.
S

 

[Teemore]

One word describes what came to mind: lederhosen......

 

[bingevader]

Unless he's been having us on all this time and he's actually FINWOMAN!

 

[Finman]

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My aim was to write "White shirt and black suspenders"

Well, if one letter makes you that happy, it is great.... Oh dear
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[Codford]

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My aim was to write "White shirt and black suspenders"

Well, if one letter makes you that happy, it is great.... Oh dear
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I think you mean "braces"?

 

[Finman]

I think you mean "braces"?

Look from google picture what is suspender.

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[pargyle]

I think you mean "braces"?

No ... I think I preferred Finnie's suspenders ...

although the tights might be a safer option ...

 

[Finman]

I think you mean "braces"?

Look from google picture what is suspender. Seems to be American England

Braces in google pictures is teeth irons
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