A flat tax is desperately needed!

uscitizen

uscitizen

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I was driving down the road last week and hit a piece off of an 18 wheeler flat tire and ruined my tire. We need to tax those suckers for their flat debris, it is dangerous.
 
uscitizen said:
I was driving down the road last week and hit a piece off of an 18 wheeler flat tire and ruined my tire. We need to tax those suckers for their flat debris, it is dangerous.
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This is the last straw. I can't vote for Obama now.
 
uscitizen said:
did you get convicted for felony bee keeping or something ?

How are the bees doing btw ?
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They seem angry still. The queen hasn't started laying yet. I've been waiting until they calm a bit before getting pictures. When I open the hive it's a cloud of bees attacking my hands mostly the bump-hits rather than attempts to sting, but still. The most aggressive hive I have ever seen. Of course I've only seen about 20 or so, but this one is amazing.

I'm hoping that when she starts laying and the workers have something to do it will change.
 
When momma is not happy no one is happy.

You do know that when one stings they give off an odor that drives others into attack mode don't ya ?
 
uscitizen said:
When momma is not happy no one is happy.

You do know that when one stings they give off an odor that drives others into attack mode don't ya ?
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Yes. I haven't yet been stung taking care of them. And, it is pheromones and not perfect. Even standing next to a hive people get stung usually only by one bee. The rest don't suddenly attack.
 
Damocles said:
Yes. I haven't yet been stung taking care of them. And, it is pheromones and not perfect. Even standing next to a hive people get stung usually only by one bee. The rest don't suddenly attack.
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Are you sure you did not get some killer bees ?
 
Yeah but as you said Africanized. Don't they mix with others so we can expect more of those traits nationwide in the future ?

or am I wrong again ?
 
uscitizen said:
Yeah but as you said Africanized. Don't they mix with others so we can expect more of those traits nationwide in the future ?

or am I wrong again ?
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I said my queen is Italian and not Africanized. And they do not mix they take over. The decreased honey intake makes it impossible for them to survive this far north. They won't be coming to our region.
 
Anyway, this hive was created from two hives that were working and creating a ton of honey. We forced a false "swarm" by moving some brood from the two hives then shaking in workers from both hives. They then created queen cells from some of the day old larvae. We counted about 20 of them. The first one to emerge, if she emerges alone, kills the rest of the queen brood in their cells, if they emerge at the same time they fight it out leaving the strongest queen to breed.

The queen then flies out and breeds with drones from another hive and returns to the hive, after she has fully bred (about five flights) she stays within the hive for the rest of her life squeezing out eggs.

Right now we are at the point where the eggs are yet to begin laying, but the rest has happened. I'm hoping that tomorrow when I go in to feed I will begin to see brood. Busy bees are not aggressive. The hives we got the bees from were not aggressive, for instance. Plenty of work to do, not so much guarding going on...
 
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