Dear Dr Doolittle

Don't tell me that you haven't surreptitiously tried the queen piping sound in one of your mating apiaries just to see what happened? The Pied Piper and his rats/children have nothing on the carnage to be seen when a bunch of Apideas all explode into life.

Taking a cue from some comments yesterday I'm now working on a patented method (Monsanto will pay my costs, I'm sure) to empty all Apideas of the non-Amm bees whilst leaving the pure queens behind for successful mating.

There was one thing missing from the talk yesterday. I presume that the whole idea of the hive monitor thing is so that some bright spark like Jimbo can actually talk to them and ask them whether supping from neonic-tainted crops makes them feel dizzy?

Gavin

PS Don't believe everything you read on the internet, and this is the internet after all.

PPS Kev - Don't tempt me!