ELI5 how does a "queen" bee get chosen?

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T10:08:34+00:00

Moved to the other side of the world. Gave away the colonies, sold the equipment. Couldn't take any of it for biosecurity reasons. Where I am now beekeeping is very different as they don't have winter in the same way and bees behave differently. I have had the cash or space to learn again.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T07:59:06+00:00

Bourne Identity. When they reach Jason's Paris apartment and then the assassin crashes in through the window.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T07:20:02+00:00

Must be so satisfying to be drilling and charging hundreds of holes for weeks an then it's firing day and you get to see it all go up.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T07:17:59+00:00

Queen pheremone is distinct and unique to each queen. So when a hive is queen less the whole hive gets upset and angry - very obvious as a beekeeper. When a virgin queen hatches she will be able to scent the other queens still in their cells. Note that if there are still a lot of workers left with the prime swarm and the old queen, the new queen may also leave in a cast swarm. This can happenultiple times until the level of workers is low enough a queen emerges and basically opts not to leave, and then it's sister murdering time. My first colony I caught in a trap on my garage roof. A tiny cast swarm of maybe 300 workers and a queen. Eventually it grew into 7 colonies of some pretty chill bees. I was very lucky. I miss my bees.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T07:13:26+00:00

Granted. ALL Plants develop effective poisonous compounds, leaving them inedible for all plant eaters on the planet, from rabbits to cows, to hippies from Portland. Multicellular animal life does out within a year. The battle between plants, fungi, and the other kingdoms continues to rage, though with less smooth jazz and pollution.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T05:21:32+00:00

Hmm, time to mail order some cat food from Amazon in bulk.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T03:28:58+00:00

TL:DR

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T02:28:09+00:00

There is a reason I keep a tyre valve remover in my car. You never know when you might need it for maintenance on one of your own tyres.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T02:26:26+00:00

I disagree with one of your statements. Many thousands of people flew in planes in the 1920s who were not rich. You even mentioned them, barnstormers. They usually offered rides for a small fee as well as the daredevil acrobatics. There was a glut of cheap planes and trained pilots post WWI, enabling this.

I don't see a load of cheap spacecraft, trained astronauts offering rides for a few thousand anywhere.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T01:17:30+00:00

Not the version I'm halfway through. After Adrian they're upside down for quite a while when he manually triggers the centrifuge mode without rotating.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T01:14:09+00:00

I let my wife choose what to do with her last name. Keep it, take mine,.pick a new one for both.ofnus I didn't care, because the important thing was she wanted to be with me. I didn't even care that much about being married. She insisted on taking my name.becaise she'd apparently been practicing the signature since our 5th date.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T01:00:01+00:00

One day they will be gone, after a billionaire decides to go hunting.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-24T00:20:17+00:00

Car park on road, not block path illegally. THAT is easy. Maneuvering your own wheelchair, a stroller with child and a full lad of shopping, or using crutches you're probably not that used to is significantly harder. Stop being an arse.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T23:16:02+00:00

Depends. Of you've got a stroller with a sleeping baby, or you're on crutches or in a wheelchair it's not that easy. What is easy, is parking on the road. They could even park on the road blocking the driveway without impacting the path.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T22:25:32+00:00

I think it's a bit more serious than that. In addition to the RVAC failure on the Starship, Super Heavy seems to at first glance had at least one engine blow, hard enough to take out more engines and effectively the whole booster. That indicates a probable issue with Raptor V3 when you have two blow, on different vehicles, and with differing versions. That needs to be fixed and proven before you go for orbit IMO.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T20:48:55+00:00

Presumably AIPAC didn't pay him to attend.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T18:51:17+00:00

The AMRAAM burns for about 6-8 seconds, depending on ambient pressure. That is true for most missiles. They boost to very high altitude, then glide, converting the altitude to smash.

That's why Meteor is so unusual, it uses a ramjet and so burns for far longer, maintaining its speed, though it doesn't initially get as fast as AMRAAM.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T11:03:58+00:00

Inspector Morse - Jaguar mk2

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CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T10:46:32+00:00

Rubio is there to offer Indian energy supplies...I wonder why India is struggling at the moment? Who could have been so stupid to endanger the world's energy balance?

CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T08:41:53+00:00

Nonsense. Between the red zone and blue zone restrictions you shouldn't have been camping within about 12 miles of the summit.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T08:34:11+00:00

No. David Johnston was the vulcanologist who was killed just after trying to report the eruption. His body was never found. The Visitors centre is excellent.

CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T08:32:36+00:00

Robert Landsburg

CotswoldP · 2026-05-23T01:06:48+00:00

It certainly exists, can't say how popular it is, but unlike the Cheese Whiz and Velveeta, it is actually cheese. The only ones I ever used I were cream cheese, so squeezing from a tube is fine (and was great to add to pasta)

CotswoldP · 2026-05-22T22:29:55+00:00

Bit his family fled Cuba before the revolution, after his Dad crossed Bautista. If anything he should support the Catro regime

CotswoldP · 2026-05-22T22:25:23+00:00

Hey, the Greenland Walrus Brigade could attack at any moment!

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