In a message dated 97-09-08 12:49:28 EDT, you write:
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Allen wrote:
"I notice that we are going over the same very basic material again and
again. These matters have been beaten to death repeatedly on BEE-L and
are well answered in the archives."
This does not make me, as a newbie myself, feel at all welcome here. I
doubt that your intent was to alienate us, but I also doubt that I am alone
in feeling that way.
-Steve >>
Guess what - you are entitled to feel anyway you wish it is beyond my
control.
This list was originally for the researchers to discuss beekeeping science
and we hobbiests drove them away to their own private group somewhere in
cyberspace.
There is a new word in the oxford english dictionary called "aliterate"
and it refers to people educated well enough to read but too lazy to do so.
Perhaps when we ask a newbee question we should also refer to which books
we have been looking in or which websites we have accessed for information.
My .02 worth 25 nice healthy colonies finding a day fooling with the
bees beats work hands down.
BTW saw a worker with thread wings in an otherwise healthy colony sent
me into varroa paranoia but saw no evidence of them on drone brood.
Are the thread wings naturally occuring every now and again ?