and do you pay per bee, or per 1000 bees, per hive?
The people must be told!
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:23, Reply)
The people must be told!
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:23, Reply)
In my head, it's per bee.
So the auction takes ages as the auctioneer has to do each individually. What with viewing and so on, it gets very complicated.
In reality, I think they sell them per nucleus - that is, queen and retinue (or whatever you call the non-queens in a hive).
How my folks're going to get them from Lincoln back to Stoke is anyone's guess. And is getting bees like getting a cat, in that you have to keep them indoors for a couple of weeks so they don't run off?
Soooooo many questions.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:26, Reply)
So the auction takes ages as the auctioneer has to do each individually. What with viewing and so on, it gets very complicated.
In reality, I think they sell them per nucleus - that is, queen and retinue (or whatever you call the non-queens in a hive).
How my folks're going to get them from Lincoln back to Stoke is anyone's guess. And is getting bees like getting a cat, in that you have to keep them indoors for a couple of weeks so they don't run off?
Soooooo many questions.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:26, Reply)
Then you train them to walk across your toast,
thereby saving a fortune on knives.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:35, Reply)
thereby saving a fortune on knives.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:35, Reply)
YES!
Patent this idea now!
1) Buy bees at auction
2) Butter bees
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:46, Reply)
Patent this idea now!
1) Buy bees at auction
2) Butter bees
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:46, Reply)
https://agdev.anr.udel.edu/maarec/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Moving_Bees.pdf
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 11:15, Reply)
Wasps are where the real money is these days. As everyone knows
bees make honey but wasps make jam.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:42, Reply)
bees make honey but wasps make jam.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:42, Reply)
I recognise this joke from somewhere,
though in the version I heard, I think that wasps made mustard.
But it's annoying me now, because I can't remember where I heard it.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:51, Reply)
though in the version I heard, I think that wasps made mustard.
But it's annoying me now, because I can't remember where I heard it.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:51, Reply)
not heard the mustard one, although I am equally annoyed
as I can't remember where I heard the jam one.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 11:07, Reply)
as I can't remember where I heard the jam one.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 11:07, Reply)
Aha.
My mistake.
Izzard was earwigs making chutney/spiders making gravy.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 16:50, Reply)
My mistake.
Izzard was earwigs making chutney/spiders making gravy.
( , Wed 30 Mar 2011, 16:50, Reply)