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Or a barrack room lawyer ....Yes it was the “I know where you live bit that alarmed me” Hey ho don’t mess with an ex copper.
Or a barrack room lawyer ....Yes it was the “I know where you live bit that alarmed me” Hey ho don’t mess with an ex copper.
His Linkedin profile seems to have disappeared as well…… spookyIntriguing as that disappearance obviously happened fairly recently but after it was pointed out on here. Inconvenient truths and rugs?
maybe not 'suddenly observed', I would suggest; rather, seen around for (possibly) ever, but no longer so frequently kept by beekeepers. As I say, most of the ferral bees I've come across in my job as a tree officer have been blackish - pretty much the opposite ratio of black to the stripy mongrels we see in our apiaries.
Know what? This isn't a decent kick-around of thoughts. I've tired of your self-important dismissal. It's a complex discussion and your dismissal suggests you haven't really looked far beyond your own opinions.But you are mad with your "subspecies". They are same as they are on continent Europe.
And your feral bees are escaped swarms. They live 2 years and then varroa kills them. Soon the hole gets a new swarm.I'v
There was a PhD thesis produced some years back which showed just this in the UK.But you are mad with your "subspecies". They are same as they are on continent Europe.
And your feral bees are escaped swarms. They live 2 years and then varroa kills them. Soon the hole gets a new swarm.
Know what? This isn't a decent kick-around of thoughts. I've tired of your self-important dismissal. It's a complex discussion and your dismissal
and what is the red shading supposed to represent?Know what? This isn't a decent kick-around of thoughts. I've tired of your self-important dismissal. It's a complex discussion and your dismissal suggests you haven't really looked far beyond your own opinions.
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(diagram from Complex Demographic History and Evolutionary Origin of the Western Honey Bee, Apis Mellifera - worth a read, but only one source from a rich seam of on-going research)
It's a big - and really interesting - discussion. Start reading further. Try keeping an open mind and just allow yourself the opportunity to grow a little. Don't bother to reply to me.
r. Try keeping an open mind and just allow yourself the opportunity to grow a little. Don't bother to reply to me.
The different colour shadings are where bees were sourced for their investigations according to the title of the map. The letters are what they consider different genetic lineages of those Mellifera and one Ceranaand what is the red shading supposed to represent?
Know what? This isn't a decent kick-around of thoughts. I've tired of your self-important dismissal. It's a complex discussion and your dismissal suggests you haven't really looked far beyond your own opinions.
View attachment 29705
(diagram from Complex Demographic History and Evolutionary Origin of the Western Honey Bee, Apis Mellifera - worth a read, but only one source from a rich seam of on-going research)
It's a big - and really interesting - discussion. Start reading further. Try keeping an open mind and just allow yourself the opportunity to grow a little. Don't bother to reply to me.
sounds like a load of guff to me - I may have time to read it laterThe different colour shadings are where bees were sourced for their investigations according to the title of the map. The letters are what they consider different genetic lineages of those Mellifera and one Cerana
I didn’t know bees lived that far north for any to be sourced.
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Damned sure I won't.sounds like a load of guff to me - I may have time to read it later
Damned sure I won't.
Going to continue haunting us though?I lost the will to live a quarter of the way through
Nope. When my time is up I will cease to existGoing to continue haunting us though?
Nope. When my time is up I will cease to exist
Unique then?I think you will be reincarnated as a pure black bee in an idyllic English woodland
100% RAWUnique then?
Now you’re talking. Worth coming back then.100% RAW
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