[Barry]

Berry,
When you get to be 60 something in years, the eyes don't see the small stuff

Are you calling Ernie, old?!

 

[BEES4U]

Red Heads

Another way of describing Cordovan queens.
Ernie Lucas Apiaries

 

[tedstruk]

PDQ- pretty darn quick
acronym used when verocious bees attack....
ie. "The bees attacked and I got out of there PDQ"

 

[BeeCurious]

Why can't we search 3 letter words and abbreviations?

Would allowing 3-character searches require additional bandwidth or something$

It seems so odd that we can not do a search for things such as: CCD, AHB, AFB, EFB, NWC, SHB, SBB etc. etc.

Or, how about being able to do a search including words such as "nuc" or perhaps "bee".

I would guess that I'm not the only member who would be willing to give up a few "Smilies" for some more practical features such as three character searches and photos in postings.

As a member who has made a donation to "Beesource" I think it would be nice to have these features.

 

[Michael Bush]

I agree. I don't know how many times I've been frustrated when looking for CCD, AHB, AFB, SHB, etc. A search on three letters would save SO much time. It would REALLY be nice if it would only index them if they are all caps. That would eliminate the "who", "and", "the" etc.

 

[taipantoo]

I have a huge Word document that I have been compiling for months from different websites. Here is a sample of some of the information. I would be glad to have a moderator take a copy and post it somehow.

That is an awsome piece of work.
Thank you

 

[Bizzybee]

3 letter searches produce so many hits it becomes useless as a tool. Searching for "bee" would be like searching for "boo" on the web. You're all talking about searches for abbreviations. Search out the words and you'll get plenty of hits. "american foul brood" returned 53 threads. "american foulbrood" returned 170.

Combine the 3 letter abbreviations with other key words you are looking for and get more hits.

3 letter searching though a database isn't going to do much more than put a nice hefty load on the server and still not produce what you think you're going to get for all the work.

 

[Troutsqueezer]

You know, umm, maybe I'd better not go there....oh, what the heck. Officially, an acronym is defined as the first letter of each word in a phrase, when put together, make up a pronounceable word, such as ACORN. Three letters which only abbreviate something don't qualify as acronyms. There...I said it. :lookout:

 

[Bonterra Bees]

yeah me too confused often.
I've coined this one I think?
does it work for ya.
ObH = Observation Hive
Mark
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"Real men don't use shot glasses or spell check"