IN hive mating.

[Erichalfbee]

This is from a topic on Facebook.
They are talking about queens getting mated in their hives.

Don't need literature. . . . Other friends who had queens born without wings have been mated.. and I have accidently clipped a Virgin as got it wrong with a hive I was doing and left her to sort in a week eg the next inspection and she was laying, so left her and she was laying normal! There are lots of things we don't know about them, got hive at home that has very large queen with 10frames of brood, and in the first super is eggs in drone comb, and queen cells that are charged, so dispels the myth of bees not being able to move eggs. Far too many things we don't know about them! 󾇡

You'd think if it occurred there would be no un mated queens turning into drone layers.

 

[user 6228]

Lots of observer bias in beekeeping
e.g. what is most likely becomes "always" and anything else becomes "never"
what rarely happens becomes "often".

All I can say because you are dealing with a super organism its ... complicated
a group behaviour that is an aglommeration of many individual behaviours so it becomes a statistical phenomenon rather than simple causality. The term I would us in physics is stochastic... or you might say
"bees do nothing invariably", just some things are unlikely

 

[Quis Custodiet]

No doubt the author is one of Mr Finny's "two hive bee keepers".

 

[Finman]

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I know a forum guy, who has two worlds. This world and the sleep world. Sleep world is more interesting because he has sex there.

 

[Quis Custodiet]

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I know a forum guy, who has two worlds. This world and the sleep world. Sleep world is more interesting because he has sex there.

Relax old chap, I agree with much of what you say especially your comments on the instant experts. The comment was intended as a compliment.

 

[midnight sun]

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I know a forum guy, who has two worlds. This world and the sleep world. Sleep world is more interesting because he has sex there.

A full and interesting reply Finman!

 

[Finman]

. The comment was intended as a compliment.

Yeah. 2000.00 km between us heals everything.

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[Finman]

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Answer to headline is simple. There would not be unmated queens in hives, if indoors mating is possible.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

This is from a topic on Facebook.
They are talking about queens getting mated in their hives.

Don't need literature. . . . Other friends who had queens born without wings have been mated.. and I have accidently clipped a Virgin as got it wrong with a hive I was doing and left her to sort in a week eg the next inspection and she was laying, so left her and she was laying normal! There are lots of things we don't know about them, got hive at home that has very large queen with 10frames of brood, and in the first super is eggs in drone comb, and queen cells that are charged, so dispels the myth of bees not being able to move eggs. Far too many things we don't know about them! 󾇡

You'd think if it occurred there would be no un mated queens turning into drone layers.

Sorry but the source is not renowned for its reliability

 

[Finman]

Sorry but the source is not renowned for its reliability

Even if it is. Source has no meaning in this case.

One beek does not cut queen wing because the queen makes a new mating flights, if bullets are finnish.

 

[Motobiman]

I SIMPLE QUESTION SO PLEASE DONT ATTACK ME.

Would a virgin queen and some workers with some drones (50-75?) picked off the frames of a selected colony, mate in a closed hive?

Or is flight an essential requirement for the mating?