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Steer Slear of Swarms (An Aggressive Strain of Bees Has Infiltrated...)
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| April 21st, 2010
| ALYCIA KILEY
Posted on 04/22/2010 8:36:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Most likely the varroa destructor mite will exterminate the killer bees along with the entire population of wild honey bees within the next ten years or so.
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posted on
04/22/2010 8:40:07 PM PDT
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SeeSharp
To: SeeSharp
To: nickcarraway
But....how?.....science.....it’s never wrong.....it’s so objective....correct....thoughtful.......it’s the end all bee all...
To: nickcarraway
She rules the hive... and produces hybrids? The hive becomes more docile?
Great idea. Killer bees really do kill often here in TX.
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posted on
04/22/2010 8:48:52 PM PDT
by
txhurl
To: nickcarraway
. . . Not all African hives show overly defensive behavior; some colonies are quiet, which gives a beginning point for beekeepers to breed a gentler stock.[11] This has been done in Brazil, where bee incidents are much less common than they were during the first wave of the African bees' colonization. Now that the African bee has been "re-domesticated", it is considered the bee of choice for beekeeping in Brazil. .from Wikipedia
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04/22/2010 8:57:57 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
To: nickcarraway
Jeffreys emphasized that with “the front end of African bees attacking, we have to maintain a strong European bee presence.” Both Miller and Jeffreys raise their own queens and re-queen the aggressive hives. “After squishing the violent queen, we put a docile, European queen in a cage and place her within the hive,” Jeffreys explained. “That way the hive can’t kill her. About three days later, once her pheromone has become accepted, the cork is popped out of the cage and she crawls out to rule the hive.”Hmm, I can think of nothing I'd rather do than pick through a swarm of vicious bees looking for their queen...
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04/22/2010 8:59:29 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: nickcarraway
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04/22/2010 8:59:53 PM PDT
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/22/2010 9:00:18 PM PDT
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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posted on
04/22/2010 9:04:58 PM PDT
by
shibumi
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To: nickcarraway
“tend to be smaller than native honeybees...”...
Huh?
There is no such thing. Honeybees were imported to North America, no native species exist.
They are all illegal immigrants!
Research, dude! Research!
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posted on
04/22/2010 9:05:11 PM PDT
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djf
To: shibumi
I was just looking for that... LOL
You Buzzed me to it
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04/22/2010 9:07:28 PM PDT
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Vendome
You knew you’d “Bee” seeing it sooner or later.
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04/22/2010 9:09:40 PM PDT
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shibumi
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To: Vendome
My wife said to me “Honey, post that picture. It’ll take the sting out of all the bad news today.”
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04/22/2010 9:11:17 PM PDT
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shibumi
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To: shibumi
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04/22/2010 9:17:47 PM PDT
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GSP.FAN
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: djf
Honeybees were imported to North America, no native species exist. Interesting. If that is the case, what species of insect pollinated flowering plants before the introduction of bees to North America?
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04/22/2010 9:20:24 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Vendome
I want to keep going, but I can’t think of any puns on “Dasypodaidae”, “Halictidae,” or “Cleptoparasitic.”
Oh well, I guess I’ll just “Bumble” along.
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04/22/2010 9:21:05 PM PDT
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shibumi
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posted on
04/22/2010 9:23:19 PM PDT
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Semper Mark
(Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. - Aristotle)
To: Markos33; GSP.FAN
Tht poor girl!
Obviously put in peril for her life with that vagrant drug dealing inner city dog fight ring promoting black hippie pit bull owner!
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04/22/2010 9:32:59 PM PDT
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shibumi
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To: shibumi
Do I have to look those up? Them’s big words and clever writing.... LOL
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04/22/2010 9:33:21 PM PDT
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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