Today, I was installing queens from a batch I harvested from my mating
nucs. I was removing the attendants...I'm an attendant remover...when I
noticed a hair thin piece of string in one of the cage screens. When I
attempted to remove it, I saw it was attached to the queen. The only way to
remove the string, was to remove the queen from her cage. The screen was
lifted off. The string, which at first I thought was merely caught on her
leg, was firmly wound around her...I'll call it her waist. Holding her in
my left hand, I surgically removed the string...which actually took me 10
minutes. I was finally able to open a loop in the string, and cut it
against my thumb nail with my trusty "Old Timer." Odd. I haven't a clue as
to where the string came from. I caged the queen, and added the attendants.
No string at that point.

When trying to describe, to my assistant, where the string was attached...I
could only come up with "waist." Looking in my bee books...even though they
have labeled drawings of bee anatomy, neither named the location. What is
the name of the connection between the thorax, and the abdomen?
Mike


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