Honeybee colonies down 53%

[madasafish]

The welsh and the cornish are the last of the Britons, after we (the anglo-saxons) drove them out of England.




Sorry about that.

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Err

What about the Highland Scots, descendants of the Picts? They are Britons too..

 

[Skyhook]

thats not the latest on that ... Apparently it was more of Britons taking up the Anglosaxon fashions and intermarrying, than pillage and conquest. Similarly with the Vikings

Derek of the village formerly named Cēnwulfes lēah (Anglosaxon) with nearby Viking Kirkby

My understanding is that that was the former view, recent DNA tests have found very little british dna east of offas dyke. Its still progress- at least we didn't eat you, like the neanderthals!

ps Derek, You have a pm from me.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

The welsh and the cornish are the last of the Britons, after we (the anglo-saxons) drove them out of England.

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and the Anglo Saxons were in turn totally buggered by the Normans
I believe the story goes:
William the conqueror came over and beat the Saxons in a day, it then took the Normans a century to cool down the Welsh enough to agree to co-exist then a Welshman took over the throne and his descendants rule to this day
I believe the English now want a vote on independence; if they win, where will they go?

blaaaa blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa blaaaaaaaaa

I see that Finman doesn't agree with some facts - so he's pretending not to hear

 

[victor meldrew]

From whence came the Normans? They certainly weren't Mediterranian types.
VM

 

[Skyhook]

From whence came the Normans? They certainly weren't Mediterranian types.
VM

The crossbred offspring of vikings who settled in France- Normandy being land of the norse-men.

This presumably means they were cheese-eating pillage-monkeys.

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[alanf]

From whence came the Normans?

It's a curious fact that when male Norse invaders became the aristocracy of Northern France they adopted French names, William, Richard, Hugh etc. along with the language. Yet when they invaded England the Saxon personal names almost disappeared within a generation.

 

[mbc]

It's a curious fact that when male Norse invaders became the aristocracy of Northern France they adopted French names, William, Richard, Hugh etc. along with the language. Yet when they invaded England the Saxon personal names almost disappeared within a generation.

Ethelstan and Egbert are so catchy too

 

[alanf]

Of

Ethelstan andEgbert are so catchy too

You can call me Aelfwald.

 

[Dishmop]

It is so simple that varroa kills untreted colonies.

Hasnt killed mine.

In fact the one colony I did lose was one I bought which had been treated.

 

[Finman]

Hasnt killed mine.

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It will

Just wait

Nothing can save it

 

[Dishmop]

It will

Just wait

Nothing can save it

The two colonies and 1 nuc I have (but not my observation hive) are from a swarm that wasnt a swarm of huge proportions but one that just drifted in during the day, in 2010, the same day I was due to pick up a nuc I had bought. I split them in the spring of 2011 after the colony I had bought died out in February. During that year I made three nucs from the two colonies which I sold, and collected some which had swarmed which overwintered and which I sold earlier this year with a new hive....... so from a swarm which some people seem to think are "always varoa infested" I think they have done quite well so far.

 

[BeeJayBee]

No one has reported that there are varroa resistant bee stocks in Britain.

Ron Hoskins and his group have gone a long way towards getting resistant bees. They don't treat and have plenty of colonies that survive. http://www.swindonhoneybeeconservation.org.uk/News.html

 

[Dishmop]

BeeJoyful's sugnature..

If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, will it grow into a beehive?

Nope. It'll grow into two beehives.

 

[Finman]

Ron Hoskins and his group have gone a long way towards getting resistant bees. They don't treat and have plenty of colonies that survive. http://www.swindonhoneybeeconservation.org.uk/News.html

I have read about this.

This is a starnge point in "report":

During his research he found one of his 80 hives had suffered far fewer mite deaths than the others, he examined the insects and found tiny marks on the bees where the mites had been.


He realised this was because they had begun to 'groom' one another to remove the parasites.


He found one hive

 

[Dishmop]

No one has reported that there are varroa resistant bee stocks in Britain.

Thats because everybody (most) beeks dose them with chemicals on the assumption that thier colonies will die if they dont.

 

[Finman]

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There is a big diffence between hobby beeks' fairy tales and serious bee breeding

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[Luminos]

Thats because everybody (most) beeks dose them with chemicals on the assumption that thier colonies will die if they dont.

Well to be fair, my first colony did die

 

[Dishmop]

He realised this was because they had begun to 'groom' one another to remove the parasites.

Most animals groom each other. I used to have a cat that groomed a Chihuahua.

Any time I look at my obs hive I see them doing it, but not ever having seen a mite on any of the bees in there I cant say if they are grooming for mites or just grooming for cleaning purposes or any nutrients/pollen etc that may be there. Grooming is noticibly carried out on newly emerged bees.

 

[Dishmop]

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There is a big diffence between hobby beeks' fairy tales and serious bee breeding

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And where did Grimm come from? If bees are dying in your country because they dont get treated doesnt mean that the same also applies to other countries.

 

[Dishmop]

Well to be fair, my first colony did die

Why did they die?