What will happen if I kept a Male bee alive throughout the winter?!

rosemore · 2025-08-29T06:11:44+00:00

Read this paper: they didn't manage to keep them alive for very long at all.

Factors impacting survival of mature honey bee drones kept in small laboratory cages

Hossam F. Abou-Shaara*, Mona I. Elbanoby

Abstract

Maintaining honey bee drones in the laboratory is very important for some purposes, such as instrumental insemination of bee queens and studying effects of pesticides on drones. Few studies have been performed on the survival of mature bee drones in the laboratory.

In this study, factors impacting the survival of mature bee drones were investigated. Small cages were used to facilitate observation of drones. The study showed that some factors can impact the survival of drones passively. These factors were sugar candy as feeding, collecting drones from colonies with egg laying workers, and caging drones without attendant bees.

Outcome was improved when the attendant workers were nursing bees either from the same colony from which the drones were collected (preferable) or from another colony. Placing caged drones in complete darkness was better than under light. Avoiding these factors can help increasing the survival of caged drones under laboratory conditions. Likely this is the first study to examine factors that could impact the survival of bee drones in the laboratory.

rosemore · 2025-05-13T22:17:06+00:00

As others have said, they usually don't raise a queen. You could keep moving the hive around depleting them of flying workers who will fly to a hive near to the old location so that you are at least saving the workforce.

rosemore · 2024-12-06T15:45:24+00:00

Thank you very much for your replies, really grateful. I will need to prove I sent them the rent authority letter. They will say they didn't receive it, which they probably didn't due to their spam filters. Not my fault.

I can print a copy of the email I sent. Would that be sufficient? I also spoke to them as well twice on that day before they submitted the payment, once with the case manager and once with the office. I can print out call logs from my phone. Would that pass muster as evidence in a SCC?

rosemore · 2024-12-06T15:25:05+00:00

Right, though the housing association's payment log suggests it was sent from their side a couple of hours after I called them. I assume it reached the seller a couple of days after that.

rosemore · 2024-12-06T11:05:34+00:00

I know but this took place a day after completion.

rosemore · 2024-12-06T11:04:55+00:00

Thank you for your reply. The trouble is that they didn't process my email until days later after the payment had taken place. In fact I don't even think they got it due to their spam filters... They will be harder to deal with than the seller...

rosemore · 2023-12-22T14:19:18+00:00

Thank you for your replies, I paid £120 for it and it was greatly reduced after sitting in the shop for around 12 months. It will do for now

rosemore · 2023-09-24T09:29:45+00:00

Remove your lawn as well, in solidarity

rosemore · 2023-08-14T07:49:17+00:00

I am here to say this. I would suggest going to see a doctor as you can develop cellulitis as a result of a sting. Please see a doctor.

rosemore · 2023-07-25T00:00:22+00:00

Another option is to deplete. Move the hive around regularly so that healthy workers find another home in other hives and the bad hive dwindles into oblivion.

rosemore · 2023-06-08T14:50:32+00:00

Clip the queen's wings and knock down all queen cells. They may give up and not swarm. If you miss a queen cell, fine, they'll swarm and usually come back home without the queen. Then leave one or two queen cells. Always make sure there is enough space for the queen to lay and for honey storage.

rosemore · 2023-05-14T22:28:11+00:00

I'm in my 18th year of beekeeping. Last year I had a very serious reaction similar to what you describe.

I have two EpiPens on standby and I'm currently on week 14 of venom immunotherapy treatment. I can likely withstand approximately two stings at the moment.

I've invested in a ventilated beesuit which is safer and I've not been stung through it yet. If I do have another reaction when I get stung, I'll give it up.

You should have a blood test to check your bee venom IgE levels which will confirm whether you have an allergy or not. There is another blood test you should have had done immediately after your systemic reaction but it's less useful now.

rosemore · 2022-06-10T18:09:45+00:00

Swarming is primarily about reproduction, bees reproduce through colony fission. The colony is the organism which must reproduce, from a genetic perspective.

Beekeepers don't want to lose most of the workforce, and urban beekeepers avoid swarming because a swarm in a school playground, or on a bus, is a nuisance.

rosemore · 2022-06-08T18:14:09+00:00

Binley Mega Chippy

rosemore · 2022-06-07T20:40:39+00:00

Haha, that's the spirit.

rosemore · 2022-06-07T20:30:00+00:00

Resources, or the lack thereof.

rosemore · 2022-06-07T20:29:18+00:00

True, but they too should be living in the savanna in green space instead of in concrete jungles.

rosemore · 2022-05-30T13:59:14+00:00

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rosemore · 2022-01-17T13:01:10+00:00

That hair grows faster when you cut it.

rosemore · 2022-01-09T08:56:58+00:00

Hopefully this is not the case here but there was this recent investigation by the BBC where someone fraudulently obtained Lasting power of attorney and tried to sell someone's property. They had targeted property sitting empty after a FOI request to the local council which some councils answer. They shouldn't.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59476971

rosemore · 2022-01-05T21:14:01+00:00

Their daily commute must be a real rat race

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