Just a Thought about Clipping the Queens Wings...

[jenkinsbrynmair]

It was your inference that beekeepers who 'work their bees' (Your words) don't observe and understand thatwas more fittting to a playground melad

 

[Cie]

melad

Now you feel the need to be patronising. Don't try and belittle me in some vain attempt to mask over your rudeness. Go back and read my question again, there is no inference, just plain questions asked by someone trying to understand another type of beekeeping.

Just because our beekeeping is different doesn't mean there's a need to be so insulting. Accept that there's nothing for you to add and move on to the next thread.

 

[psafloyd]

Now you feel the need to be patronising. Don't try and belittle me in some vain attempt to mask over your rudeness. Go back and read my question again, there is no inference, just plain questions asked by someone trying to understand another type of beekeeping.

Just because our beekeeping is different doesn't mean there's a need to be so insulting. Accept that there's nothing for you to add and move on to the next thread.

JBM would never attempt to mask his rudeness or smartarsery for that matter.

Don't be so sensitive. Questions are good, but there are different views and kid gloves are not good in beekeeping as far as I can see. They retain sting pheromones and get dirty very quickly...

 

[Roola]

If I could just give my 2 cents here, in Jenkins defence, he's not rude, he's straight talking. H's been an excellent help to me in answering my questions OR questioning things I've done but all in the interest of stimulating discussion or getting to the bottom of the problem.

 

[Chris Luck]

Looks like the flow has stopped in some parts of the UK.

Chris

 

[pargyle]

Looks like the flow has stopped in some parts of the UK.

Chris

Don't change the subject .... it's just getting going - all we need next is the mention of matchtsticks and we're in for an entertaining weekend !

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Nice and sunny here - starting work in my new life on Monday so today iIm going to be in the garden enjoying the last of my mid-week freedom with the bees (might just pull the legs off the odd spider to amuse myself)

 

[madasafish]

Nice and sunny here - starting work in my new life on Monday so today iIm going to be in the garden enjoying the last of my mid-week freedom with the bees (might just pull the legs off the odd spider to amuse myself)

I hereby name you "chief stirrer and master of trouble"

 

[Bee-Key-Pur]

Try Charles Hawtrey

Honestly, what a carry on....

 

[pargyle]

I hereby name you "chief stirrer and master of trouble"

I'll second that - you'll be graduating to collecting butterfly wings next - rarer they are the better !

 

[sunhivebee]

Right, time to sum up:

Charles Hawtrey, responsible beekeeper of 200 plus colonies in Nofolk, made a chance discovery and shared it on this forum:

"Just a Thought about Clipping the Queens Wings...
Instead of clipping the Queens wings, has anyone tried gluing them together. By the way, I'm not saying I have, but would like to know if it could stop her swarming... "

We must laud him for applying his searching mind to finding a more convenient way, perhaps, of stopping colonies swarming, than is the clipping of wings, which after all, requires some skill and dexterity.

Whilst some of the responses to this idea led him to try and distance himself from it, we should nevertheless acknowledge his valiant contribution to the art and skill of the responsible beekeeper today.

Time to close the thread, I guess, before Sandals and Kaftans Man regales us to even more brilliant ideas for everyone's entertainment.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I can think of a few but then Admin would probably delete them
Surpirsed you're still here though Heidi - you usually just skulk away after firing the first broadside so noone can get a response from you

 

[Bee-Key-Pur]

I can think of a few but then Admin would probably delete them

Yeah, I have more than a few, but not on here....

 

[Chris Luck]

Ooooooooooooooooo, so butch.

Chris

 

[islayhawk]

The Photo looks remarkably like the photo from the 'Fragile Planet Ltd ' website

islayhawk

 

[pargyle]

Yeah, I have more than a few, but not on here....

Well ... it was a stupid post in the first place... if it was meant as a joke then perhaps a moticon would have helped ... a lot of people seemed to take it seriously and if it were meant as a serious suggestion then really I would have thought that, with your experience, you would have known that the difficulty a queen with wings glued together would face is considerable. Even with my limited knowledge of bee morphology it was obvious that gluing a queen's wings together would make her less agile in many respects - not just from the point of view of flying.

HH may be at the far right of indignation but there's a lot more of us not far behind.

 

[Chris Luck]

The Photo looks remarkably like the photo from the 'Fragile Planet Ltd ' website

islayhawk

Which photo?

I'm sure no one here would be such a prat as to post an uncredited photo that belonged to another person.

Chris

 

[islayhawk]

Yeah well I would bet my last dollar it is the same photo. Fragile planet Ltd - bee suppliers.
Under the section on Nuc boxes

islayhawk

 

[Hivemaker.]

Yeah well I would bet my last dollar it is the same photo.

You can see the picture in use in several more places here...https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=q...3sA8Or0QWL94GwAg&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=805&bih=461

Wonder if Fragile Planet have permission to use it?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Yeah well I would bet my last dollar it is the same photo. Fragile planet Ltd - bee suppliers.
Under the section on Nuc boxes

islayhawk

Confused? are you referring to the photo on my profile? if so, sorry you're wrong - taken by my wife on hiving my first buckfast nuc.