The tip of the iceberg ?

[oliver90owner]

The real reason for the decline of all pollinators is the current round of nerve agent systemic insect killers - neonics. Now possibly sulfoximine(?) as the next one.

 

[For want of a better word]

What have the Romans ever done for us ?

Four foot eight and one half inches... the size of chariot wheels that would fit behind a horse's arse.... hence the railway gauge that spread across most of the civilised world ( The French and the Germans of course had to reinvent their own gauge!

Nadelik Lowen

 

[Hebeegeebee]

Four foot eight and one half inches... the size of chariot wheels that would fit behind a horse's arse.... hence the railway gauge that spread across most of the civilised world ( The French and the Germans of course had to reinvent their own gauge!

Nadelik Lowen

And we had to invent our own hive & frame size rather than use one that was to become (it it wasn't already) the world standard.

 

[Hebeegeebee]

Simplify things: campaign to stop people! Too many of them compared with the forage??

Absolutely right. There are too many people on this planet; pushing out everything else. We all know this but politicians seem unable to grasp this fact - or they are unwilling to. And when a country has a falling birth rate their government tries to get people to breed more so their economy doesn't suffer. Madness.

Sorry Mr Moderator sir, off topic.

 

[Hebeegeebee]

It is possible that over-populated apiaries could compete with other pollinators. The beekeeper will / should know this as honey yields reduce. However in practice this is rare, I would expect and in any case other pollinators have longer tongue lengths in some cases; fly longer in the day or have strategies (eating through the side of a flower to get to the nectar for example) that honeybees don't have.

And hasn't 95% of the white clover disappeared over the past 50 or so years? That was my introduction to bees when I was about 7 - Collecting bees in a jam jar as they were feeding off clover on the field at the back of our home.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

There are too many people on this planet; pushing out everything else. We all know this but politicians seem unable to grasp this fact

I don't know - Our PM is doing her bit:
selling weapons to any despotic regime that fancies a bit of genocide to while away the long days.

 

[For want of a better word]

And we had to invent our own hive & frame size rather than use one that was to become (it it wasn't already) the world standard.

Standard... the foreign Johnnies could not agree on a standard traffic light or drive on the proper side of the road .. for goodnes's sake


WE had a BRITISH STANDARD....
The British National Hive follows the specification issued by the British Standard 1300: 1960 with
bottom bee space. This has been adapted to suit modern beekeeping practices.

Yeghes da

 

[For want of a better word]

Standard... the foreign Johnnies could not agree on a standard traffic light or drive on the proper side of the road .. for goodnes's sake


WE had a BRITISH STANDARD....
The British National Hive follows the specification issued by the British Standard 1300: 1960 with
bottom bee space. This has been adapted to suit modern beekeeping practices.

Yeghes da

http://www.beekeeping.org.uk/is_national_hive.pdf

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Four foot eight and one half inches... the size of chariot wheels that would fit behind a horse's arse.... hence the railway gauge that spread across most of the civilised world ( The French and the Germans of course had to reinvent their own gauge!

WE had a BRITISH STANDARD....

Yes, and typical of this country we chose, and imposed on most of the rest of the world) a gauge inferior to what we could have had (Stephenson's 'standard' 4'8" gauge was originally called the narrow gauge) as the wider gauge gives far more stability which would have made a great difference now with the added stability at speed that a broader gauge would have afforded

 

[Popparand]

Yes, and typical of this country we chose, and imposed on most of the rest of the world) a gauge inferior to what we could have had (Stephenson's 'standard' 4'8" gauge was originally called the narrow gauge) as the wider gauge gives far more stability which would have made a great difference now with the added stability at speed that a broader gauge would have afforded

Whatever next? Routemasters?

 

[Finman]

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There are a teaching video in YouTube, what Romans did in Britain.

But how much they took slaves from Britain? Oh dear, read from Wikipedia Slavery in Britain.

 

[Popparand]

Four foot eight and one half inches... the size of chariot wheels that would fit behind a horse's arse.... hence the railway gauge that spread across most of the civilised world ( The French and the Germans of course had to reinvent their own gauge!

Nadelik Lowen

But there is no standard size for a horse's arse, not even in Roman times. And the Roman's did n't have feet and inches.

The reason for this width of chariot wheelbase is that a carpenter called Sharpus Chisellus (150 - 85 b.c.) invented a new type of chariot that became very popular because it had better suspension and improved cornering. The distance between the wheels was originally measured in cubits (the length of a fore arm). Sharpus Chisellsus' left arm was shorter than his right one, but that was the measure he used. His new design became very popular and was widely copied, so many of these made their way over to Britain. Eventually the width in cubits was converted into feet and inches, and as there was no reason to change all the tooling set up to manufacture chariots this is the measurement we still use to this day. Period.

 

[For want of a better word]

Sharpus Chisellus

Nadelik Lowen