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.
2 posted on
04/22/2010 8:40:07 PM PDT by
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.
5 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
6 posted on
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...
7 posted on
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
8 posted on
04/22/2010 8:59:53 PM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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10 posted on
04/22/2010 9:04:58 PM PDT by
shibumi
(Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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!
11 posted on
04/22/2010 9:05:11 PM PDT by
djf
To: IncPen
To: nickcarraway; Vendome; JoeProBono; GSP.FAN; shibumi; Salamander; Markos33
How do you steer a Slear?
To: nickcarraway
San Luis Obispo County for all of us clueless plebeian. Doesn’t anyone believe in traditional datelines anymore?
53 posted on
04/22/2010 10:29:36 PM PDT by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: nickcarraway
Steer Slear of Swarms (An Aggressive Strain of Bees Has Infiltrated...)
You sure it wasn't the Spelling Bees that did the infiltrating?
116 posted on
04/22/2010 11:08:31 PM PDT by
rottndog
(WOOF!!! Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America.....)
To: nickcarraway; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
o/~ I can cee slearly now, the rain is gone... o/~
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