Brownbear
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OwOne just stung me.
Fatherless little winged git.
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Cathryn
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 I'm sure it's good for you. Keeps you youthful, virile or something like that. 
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tahir
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Good for arthritis
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Silas
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| tahir wrote: | | Good for arthritis |
He may not want arthritis.
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ksia
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Probably not the first brown bear to be stung by a bee.
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gz
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Jamanda
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What were you doing to annoy it?
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Tavascarow
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Re: Ow | Brownbear wrote: | One just stung me.
Fatherless little winged git. |
To be a pedant only male bees are fatherless & they don't sting.
Hope the little darling doesn't get blood poisoning.
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Tavascarow
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| Cathryn wrote: | | I'm sure it's good for you. Keeps you youthful, virile or something like that. |
Depends where it stings you.
Better than viagra in the right place.
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sean
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| Jamanda wrote: | | What were you doing to annoy it? |
Oh that's right. Blame the human.
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Green Rosie
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A hornet was flying round here today. It's now a dead hornet I'm afraid. I react very badly to wasp stings and don't want to take any chances with their larger cousins. The boys were fascinated with it mind you but an older neighbouring boy wouldn't come near it til I had squashed it again to make sure it really was dead!
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jocorless
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Well I've been through mine today and they were as good as gold - then went on a mercy dash over to a friends who was worried they had charged queen cells - thankfully it was a false alarm but the little madams stung me 3 times - I think it may be necessary to requeen her next year - she's a right narky madam even though she came from my stock originally - she's last years queen
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Brownbear
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Re: Ow | Tavascarow wrote: | | Brownbear wrote: | One just stung me.
Fatherless little winged git. |
To be a pedant only male bees are fatherless & they don't sting.
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I was trying to avoid the term 'bastard'.
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Nick
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Re: Ow | Tavascarow wrote: | | Brownbear wrote: | One just stung me.
Fatherless little winged git. |
To be a pedant only male bees are fatherless & they don't sting.
Hope the little darling doesn't get blood poisoning.
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How does that work then? Why aren't females fatherless, too? I'm ignorant of bees, and I don't even like honey much... Coming from a line of bee keepers, I think I'm a disappointment to my mother, grandmother, and her mother before her. Old witches...
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Jamanda
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The Queen mates with a number of males when she is young. She then doesn't leave the hive again unless she swarms. Just stays there laying eggs. She can lay diploid (fertilised) eggs which will grow into female workers, or haploid (unfertilised) eggs which will develop into male drones. A very few of the worker eggs will be treated differently by means of the food they are fed and the hormones they are exposed to and will develop into queens.
If that happens the old queen will take off with the flying bees from the colony and the new one will take over laying duties after a nuptial flight.
The drones just move round from hive to hive being fed and mating with any random virgin queens the meet on the way. All very nice, until the beginning of Winter when they get kicked out to starve in the cold.
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Chez
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| Jamanda wrote: | | All very nice, until the beginning of Winter when they get kicked out to starve in the cold. |
With their wings pulled off. Don't forget that bit.
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Mrs Baggins
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I have been stung the grand total of once in my whole life (to date) and that could all have changed in an instant when I noticed a hole in my brand new bee suit where the stitching has come apart already. The hole is at my crotch. Fancy trying to get the stinger out of that halfway thru a hive inspection. 
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Ginkotree
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I shall check my suit over now you have said that, I have been stung in the past but am a bit wary since having had a lot of lymph glands removed,... happily we are only a very short distance form the local hospital if any really adverse reaction should occur...wont let a potential sting stop me,happily the bees in the hive seem quite plassid.
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