I saw something nasty in the woodshed

[beecology]

I agree, how can you criticise what some people do without knowing the full circumstances of why they do it. I have two shotguns and an air rifle, both of which I use when necessary. Does that make me a bad person.
E

Enrico, I wasn't criticising you personally, or your ownership of guns. I was merely suggesting working with nature is the way forward and the bragging about shooting on several threads/topics (not from you) is distasteful. Far too many think it adds inches to parts of their anatomy

 

[BeeJayBee]

Does that make me a bad person.

Nowhere near as bad as somebody who uses an apostrophe in the middle of a plural word!

 

[beecology]

Nowhere near as bad as somebody who uses an apostrophe in the middle of a plural word!

hymenopteran's (hymenopterans )

 

[madasafish]

I agree, how can you criticise what some people do without knowing the full circumstances of why they do it. I have two shotguns and an air rifle, both of which I use when necessary. Does that make me a bad person.
E

It all depends on whom you shoot

 

[Gilberdyke John]

It all depends on whom you shoot

The forum is a broad church (to borrow Harold Wilsons phrase). We have a spectrum from the crusading tree huggers right through to the get the flame throwers into action brigade. As long as each respects the others right to hold an opinion there's no problem. Just don't shove it down the others throat.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Just don't shove it down the others throat.

Don't get that confused with Post #21 then!
BTW SWMBO says there's no need to add another inch (she's always liked things in small portions )

 

[beecology]

Don't get that confused with Post #21 then!
BTW SWMBO says there's no need to add another inch (she's always liked things in small portions )

Hey, cmon, I don't want a war here - for starters, you lot have got all of the guns

Its just If I wanted to read mindless rubbish on shooting, I'd buy the shooting times or countryman's weekly, not head to a beek forum

 

[madasafish]

Hey, cmon, I don't want a war here - for starters, you lot have got all of the guns

Its just If I wanted to read mindless rubbish on shooting, I'd buy the shooting times or countryman's weekly, not head to a beek forum

It makes a change from mindless rubbish on beekeeping...

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Hey, cmon, I don't want a war here - for starters, you lot have got all of the guns

Its just If I wanted to read mindless rubbish on shooting, I'd buy the shooting times or countryman's weekly, not head to a beek forum

Heaven forbid you'd find countrymen on a beekeeping forum

 

[beecology]

Heaven forbid you'd find countrymen on a beekeeping forum

That depends on ones definition of a countryman I suppose - plenty of so called countrymen from the big smoke and anyone can shoot a gun, yet know nothing of the countryside

Sorry to distort this thread - I say admire those queen wabbies

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I popped in to see one of our neighbours near the association apiary today. Who was slighly concerned as to the number of bees frequenting his garden. - The centrepiece of which is a beautiful big Koi pond!! with loads of pebbled shallows and a mossy water feature
That'll be our 12 colonies' water source sorted then
We got to discussing wasps and his wife asked "tell me, all our friends ask wasps - what is the point of them?" I related a few of the Karol supplied factlets and they were (pleasingly) astonished - that'll be a conversation stopper at the next dinner party!

 

[enigmatica]

Not that my opinion holds much weight but I'm for the wasps - at least at this time of the year. I have squished in the past, a determined queen building in my greenhouse. I removed her nest hoping it would deter her but she kept coming back. I've kept the thing in a jar in homage to her tenacity. It really is a work of art, literally paper thin and the size of a ping pong ball, beautifully crafted and all created by a creature with a collection of ganglia not much bigger than a pin head. I rejoice to see them in the spring just as I despair the absence of swallows this year.

 

[BeeJayBee]

Does that make me a bad person.

Nowhere near as bad as somebody who uses an apostrophe in the middle of a plural word!

hymenopteran's (hymenopterans )

That's the one!