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« on: March 05, 2005, 03:38:54 pm »


 :D Al

Offline Jay

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« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2005, 06:44:33 pm »
Al!!!!!!! You were peeking!!!!!! :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world
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Offline Beth Kirkley

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« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2005, 01:04:29 am »
WoW! How in the world did you manage to catch that shot?

Beth

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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2005, 10:20:51 am »
I didn't take the picture myself. While doing research for a Magazine article I'm writeing I ran across this picture taken for a PBS documentry did in 1998. They found a drone stageing area and built a tall tower to get as high as the drones and waited.

Yes I was surprized to learn that drones have stageing areas where they wait for virgin queens. Then this morning I finally got to the place in Longstroths book the hive and the honey bee where it tells about them. Amazing I have read 4 beekeeping books a couple twice and I had to find this fact in one published in 1858.
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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2005, 09:20:44 pm »
Hey!  Is that Porn on this site?   :)
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Anonymous

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« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2005, 10:32:03 am »
Bee porn for sure. Should I remove it? Funny I never gave it any thought that some people might object?

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Offline asleitch

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« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2005, 10:49:18 am »
>Bee porn for sure. Should I remove it? Funny I never gave it any thought that some people might object?

Eh? Thats not porn - its nature. Reproduction is a natural act.  We are beekeepers and that shot is of amazing value in so much as it's an almost never seen part (and hence limited knowledge) of beekeeping.

Adam

Offline Horns Pure Honey

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« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2005, 06:01:39 pm »
that is a great shot!!!!!!!!!!  :D  :D  :D
Ryan Horn

Offline Apis629

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« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2005, 01:56:52 am »
I just say, as a male myself, that you can skip the next few frames where the drones abdomen explodes as he falls to the ground; dead.