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    Another exotic addition to the already wonderful Mull wildlife, lindsay! Photo of them here: http://www.mullbirds.com/LATESTREPORTS.html. I gather they don't just specialise in bees but take any passing flying insect. I hope they develop a taste for cleggs rather than virgin queens!

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    Rained all weekend, chilly here in Germany too. After 1,5 kg - 2kg weight increases per day all last week loosing about 1,5kg per day that they are not flying.
    Hopefully it will brighten up soon.

    All hives are gearing up to swarm now - idle hands do the devils work... So I must build up another 5 4-5 frame nucs before the week is out.
    The first 32 queens should emerge from their cells in the brooder on Monday so very much in full swing at this end!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by lindsay s View Post
    P.S. The exploits of the Mull beekeepers must be spreading far and wide because I believe a pair of European bee eaters have turned up (maybe to feast on some good Scottish bees).
    Lindsay - yes I heard that too. One of my onboard wildlife guides told me that very same thing yesterday. I did not believe him, but seems there is some truth in it somewhere.

    I went through my hive today, told the foragers that were there at the time to be on the lookout for a lethal multicoloured stranger that could be lurking around somewhere. (I believe they munch on a few hundred bees/wasps/day). My colony has stood still this week having done a great expansion prior to that. Saw my first hatched drone of the season. Loads of sealed brood, so expecting something big soon - nucs all ready.

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    Sounds good, Popz!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trog View Post
    Sounds good, Popz!
    Yea, it may sound good but still not found queenie despite my being frightfully cool, chatting to them incessantly, and taking my time over the inspection. She will be doing this on purpose of course, trying to show me who's boss. A typical domestic scenario!

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    If we're talking domestic scenarios, then for practice try persuading your wife to march about the kitchen, slightly long-legged and swaggery, when the children are all home and lounging about the floor. Make her wear her high heels, and for two reasons: she'll have that long-legged and slightly unstable look, and when her heel digs in to one of your children they are bound to turn and face her (to remonstrate, if not to lick up delicious perfume).

    Feed your wife well beforehand - the slightly saggy belly may add to the effect. Oh, and ask her to drop her usual proud posture but instead slouch and drop her head. Bee queens have heads positioned for peering down into the next empty cell rather than strutting.

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    You forgot to mention the coloured spot on the thorax and an XXXL marking cage.
    Might need some clip on legs as well.

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    Ok ok - you are all so bloomin clever. I cannot for one tiddly second imagine my lovely lady enacting a single part of Gavin's scenario! So maybe I just have not had the sort of instruction that you guys have had. And furthermore, when a get all this frightfully knowledgeable double speak such as ' leg clips, xxxl marking cage' is this something my wife and I have missed out on? - and indeed whatever has that got to do with my queenie, if she exists?

    Which she must in order to have created the zillions of new ladies that appear as soon as I start looking for her!

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    The XXXL cage I could imagine, but I have to say that the leg clips foxed me. Must be a Belfast thing.

    OK Popz, then you'll just have to imagine one of your other ladies (in the wooden box) with all that high-heeled, swaggery, magnetic personality, head-down behaviour.

    Regards to Mrs Popz.

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    Must be a Belfast thing.
    Are you suggesting that Popz is married to a 6 legged woman?
    That's taking the thing a bit too far.

    This must be a record deviation for off-topic.
    Good job the so called administrator started it.
    Last edited by Jon; 04-05-2010 at 07:49 PM.

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