Letters to the Editor
casper
Published Letters: 3
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nuc it
[Read the article: Buzz kill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Novella I hope you buy a nuc (short for nucleus, 4 frames of bees ,brood and a new Queen). i f you get on it everything will get pollinated and you may even get a honey crop. I also lost alot of my bees this winter and I will be replacing them all with nucs. Hopefully we won't have to do this forever but for now...that's how to keep the buzz going. Good luck....David
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more bee stuff
[Read the article: Fathers get no respect]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always enjoy Garrison. Good info on bees Larry but you failed to mention that drones are the result of virgin birth themselves. They have a grandfather but no father. The queen can choose to lay either a fertilized egg that will result in a worker bee or an unfertilized egg that turns into a fat, friendly, loud male. They made great pets for my daughter ( they have no stinger) and she was always rescuing them. The worker bees are considered incomplete females....I know what sexist crap. In a hive that loses it's queen, and is unable to raise a new one, a worker can lay eggs. These eggs of course are unfertilized and and all will be drones. A hive with no future. Will I may go try some of those cures for my tinnitus...maybe planters wart remedy will work.
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long live the ,,,er...queen
[Read the article: Fathers get no respect]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope GK could see the humor in his Fathers day article leading to all this talk of an awesome Matriarcal society. Proves his point maybe. Perhaps for mothers day we could reflect on good ole Fundamentalism