Amm queens

[Jon]

Don't worry. I intend to have queens next year from the end of May onwards.
Prolific bees like Buckfast will make more honey than Amm (watch that lowercase) under perfect conditions but if you have more marginal conditions, Amm will likely come out on top. So the answer is - depends on where you live and what weather you get.

[gwizzie]

Don't worry. I intend to have queens next year from the end of May onwards.
Prolific bees like Buckfast will make more honey than Amm (watch that lowercase) under perfect conditions but if you have more marginal conditions, Amm will likely come out on top. So the answer is - depends on where you live and what weather you get.

Thanks Jon, I will have to wait dont want to but hay ho....

Amm (watch that lowercase)

LOL

I think it's getting a bit out of hand now AMM or Amm as long as we all know what it is then who cares ? (prob my English teacher) but then I use to argue with them too about silent letters, but then that's another topic (they take up extra space on the page and use up ink) hahaha

[Kate Atchley]

Prakel's quote's gone wrong but you'll get the drift.

[QUOTE When Dr. Phillips was head of the bee culture laboratory in Washington, he wrote me that the word "grafting" was an improper term and that they did not graft but transferred. Jay Smith 'Better Queens' 1949 [/QUOTE]

Yes, misleading use of language. ... precisely wrong indeed!

But on the grafting theme, could save a lot of bother to be able to change bee 'stock' with a wee bit of Chinese tool action.

[Jon]

The other one that some get hung up on is stating that queens hatch from cells as opposed to emerge from cells.

And of course the legions of beekeepers who spell supersedure with a c in the middle of it instead of an s.

[SDM]

And maybe not the approach to take with your very FIRST post!

I probably use AMM and Amm interchangeably. I'm assuming it's some science-y mullarkey that means the second is the correct version

It's the wanabee biologist in me. It comes from the taxonomic classification system
Remember....
Keeping Precious Creatures Organised for Grumpy Scientist
Or, Kingdom Phylum Class Order Genus Species

[Mellifera Crofter]

The other one that some get hung up on is ...

Or 'honeybees' instead of 'honey bees' - or perhaps that's just my hang-up.
Kitta

[prakel]

Or 'honeybees' instead of 'honey bees' - or perhaps that's just my hang-up.
Kitta

Honey Bees 4 Questions: Jamie Ellis

https://youtu.be/fHtboH5jfvA

[gavin]

Jamie Ellis is an American so he doesn't count .

Although the 'National Honey Show' poster of the video did seem to go along with him.

[prakel]

The other one that some get hung up on is stating that queens hatch from cells as opposed to emerge from cells.

Back to the previously mentioned book:

A certain high brow told me cells do not hatch as only eggs can do that. Instead we should say the virgin emerges. From a grammatical standpoint he is correct but when I get ready to say anything I do not propose to let grammatical expressions or rhetorical technicalities hamper the thought I wish to express so, Mr. Highbrow, we shall continue to "hatch" our cells.

Jay Smith 'Better Queens' 1949

Jamie Ellis is an American so he doesn't count .

lol. But he does do great talks

edit (very off topic): Gavin, I need a revision of the 'how to link a video tutorial' for some reason I've forgotten how to get the screen shot without the rest of the page the video's on.

[drumgerry]

Prakel - if it's from Youtube cut (Ctrl c) the URL from the top of your browser rather than use the share thing on the Youtube page, use "go advanced" on the forum, take the video option, paste into the box (Ctrl v) and if you hit preview post you should have a video in your post. Hope that helps and not sure why I couldn't use the standard Youtube share facility to do the same.

This is a pointless example of me doing it the way I described (it's a dull video I took of my bees bearding!)