Mating flight

[Finman]

As entitled as you are to choose your clobber when in the
apiary - at work or not - adding a value judgment to that
aired selection (Philip) colours that view, particularly
when the bigotry expressed in response to the assistance
offered is a line of silliness you choose to ignore in now airing
your view. Do you also support such behaviour?
Ref: post #9
https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=44439

Whilst I can agree the jury is still out on Apis' ability to *sense*
fear it remains an accurate observation where it is always the
nervous reticent observer who gets pinged by guards - regardless
of their attire.
Run enough group tutorials and yourself may just be pushed to
consider Apis do indeed sense fear.

Bill

A Russian would say: Njet bonimaju

 

[For want of a better word]

Another bag of scrabble tiles gets spilled all over the thread........

I wonder if eltalia is the same chap who lost some fingers whilst attempting to feed a large saltwater crock kangaroo flavoured Pringles?

Wish Bee Equipment would deliver my order this morning as promised as I am waiting in and getting bored!

Yeghes da

 

[manek]

Last week, wearing just a mid-grey T-shirt & jeans, I approached four hives that I'm looking after and - as I usually do - carried a couple of boxes full of gear to within about 5 metres of the hives. Put the boxes down - and got stung! So I grabbed my suit, got (ran!) away from the hives, put the suit on and over the next hour or so, did what I had to do including a full inspection, feeding, etc. Not a single ping, no aggression, nothing.

Go figure...

 

[ShinySideUp]

Err sorry you are just plain wrong.

Well that's put me in my place because you are obviously right. Ye Gods, the arrogance.

 

[Beefriendly]

.

Go figure...

You simply ended up in the flight path of one (of many) returning bee that just happened to hit you, panicked and stung....been there a few times whilst mowing the lawn next to my hives.

 

[eltalia]

(edit)
It must be a case of a) you are a liar b) you are Jesus c) your bees are actually
dead but you haven't noticed.

0h deah... you have got it bad, fear like.
That or you attempt to build some Xgen latte version of an olde
MP skit. So allow me the grace to inform...?...?

This P A R R O T is dead... a D E A D parrot, gonesky/pinis/finitio.

Bill

 

[ShinySideUp]

0h deah... you have got it bad, fear like.
That or you attempt to build some Xgen latte version of an olde
MP skit. So allow me the grace to inform...?...?

This P A R R O T is dead... a D E A D parrot, gonesky/pinis/finitio.

Bill

Eh?

 

[Beefriendly]

Eh?

You don't read M.Python script..?
Hint....polygon.

 

[ShinySideUp]

You don't read M.Python script..?
Hint....polygon.

I get the Python bit, I can quote Python until the cows come home. It's this bit -- 0h deah... you have got it bad, fear like.
That or you attempt to build some Xgen latte version of an olde


I haven't a clue what he's on about.

Here's a bit of Python that I know roughly off by heart:

Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered,
philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you
non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome,
spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a
tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement!
You whining, hypocritical toadies, with your colour TV
sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding
Masonic secret handshakes! You wouldn't let me join,
would you, you blackballing *******s! Well, I wouldn't
become a freemason now if you went down on your lousy,
stinking knees and begged me!

Bit like some of the folks on this here forum.

 

[Beefriendly]

I get the Python bit, I can quote Python until the cows come home. .

Good....and don't get me onto the "you had it hard"......when something a bit different comes along always worth the effort to try and understand.

 

[manek]

You simply ended up in the flight path of one (of many) returning bee that just happened to hit you, panicked and stung....been there a few times whilst mowing the lawn next to my hives.

You're probably right. Bit of a shock at the time - I thought I might be about to come under a sustained attack!

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[Finman]

Last week, wearing just a mid-grey T-shirt & jeans, I approached four hives that I'm looking after and - as I usually do - carried a couple of boxes full of gear to within about 5 metres of the hives. Put the boxes down - and got stung! So I grabbed my suit, got (ran!) away from the hives, put the suit on and over the next hour or so, did what I had to do including a full inspection, feeding, etc. Not a single ping, no aggression, nothing.

Go figure...

It is normal that a bee attack near the hives. It does not need any explanation.

I wear on these days black jacket. Bees hate it and at least 10 bees are hanging around me.

.

 

[Antipodes]

Most of the bees that sting in close proximity to the hives here (without opening the hives or anything) generally attack backside first, presumably with barbed sting extended. There is no warning with those.

 

[madasafish]

Well that's put me in my place because you are obviously right. Ye Gods, the arrogance.

If it is arrogant to prove you are wrong, then I am arrogant.

 

[ShinySideUp]

If it is arrogant to prove you are wrong, then I am arrogant.

Proof, what proof? Just because you say something doesn't make it true. I work with dogs (or rather, their owners) and I have had it said to me many times that they know dogs and that a well-trained dog doesn't bite -- "well, er, that is, not until yesterday". No one and nothing is absolutely trustworthy, not even when it's dead. Anything can suddenly turn and bite, sting, infect; even a beekeepers own body can suddenly turn from being sting-tolerant to anaphylactic. You may continue with your cavalier attitude to bee-safety, I shall continue to use my PPE and neither of us will be able to prove to the other which is more effective but I'll wager I get fewer stings than you do in any given year.

 

[madasafish]

..

 

[Hebeegeebee]

I have no worries about walking around my home apiary and through the hives. I do not expect to get stung, however if I walk across the front of a hive and get in the flight path of bees and one gets stuck in my hair and panics, I say that's my fault. As madasafish has said, select from good bees and cull the bad queens. I see no reason why anyone should accept bad behaviour. (That's bees as well as people ).

 

[Hebeegeebee]

Back to the original question. I witnessed a mating swarm once. Checked the hive whilst the bees were out to find no queencells. Bees came back and the queen was laying a few days later.

 

[eltalia]

Shiny wrote in part;
"You may continue with your cavalier attitude to bee-safety,"

How in your head do you process selecting rarity as prime reasoning to
build a fear yet deny that very same reasoning of selection - in only running
a gene line of passive bees - as being rational beekeeping?

Either there is a benefit to you in propagating beesuit sales or fear has ran
your b'kpn choices from Day01, and that (now) can never change. A crying
shame as there are just so many inhibitors around suits (always) your
enjoyment of the craft will be handicapped in operating in a bubble.

Bill

 

[eltalia]

Back to the original question. I witnessed a mating swarm once.
Checked the hive whilst the bees were out to find no queencells.
Bees came back and the queen was laying a few days later.

I reckon some here reckon that should they recount
what was thought to be seen, and saturate reality
with such contradiction, the mirage will become a meme.
Kinda the backbone of what supports social media - get
such whimsys to "Trend".
/wry smile/

Bill