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I'm shopping around for a DNA testing lab that would be willing to perform a long term study on the hybridization of Africanized bee populations in Southern California. The potential study would...

Yeah there are other threads that extoll the virtues of "oops" paint ( http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?266857-Painting-hive-bodies ). This thread is talking about a no VOC alternative...

I'm using a 5-1 cottage cheese to hydrated lime slurry, bulked up with "whitening powder" (calcium carbonate- chalk) and tinted with titanium dioxide. I could see myself using only chalk and omitting...

I'm always willing to be wrong!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation
The wiki uses comb as a natural example of tessellation.

I think of it like this: bees are creating a space for holding brood, pollen etc. the space...

Oh. Why?

The y shape is the bottom of the other side of the comb, between cells. It simply reflects the tessellation pattern, just through the other side and staggered so that from the cell you are looking it...

Here's at least an incidental answer to the catagorical "not": http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=BszgwPAAAAAJ&citation_for_view=BszgwPAAAAAJ:wbdj-CoPYUoC

This, absolutely. Bees do NOT make hexagonal cells, it a process called tessellation. Consider soap bubbles piling up against each other, they will form sides where they meet and this will determine...

I loved nearly everything you wrote in this post, but especially this. Thank you.

I too have seen hives struggle for lack of queenrightness after a cut out. This coming year I'll invest in a couple queen cages and work harder at finding her before framing comb into boxes. On the...

Wow I didn't know there was a term for us, thanks!

Longtime lurker, new member. I've wanted on numerous occasions to comment on some thread or another and was simply too impatient to go through the membership process. Today I not only had patience, I...