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Title: Mating flight
Post by: Anonymous on March 05, 2005, 03:38:54 PM

(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/images/scopulation.jpeg)

:D Al

Title: Mating flight
Post by: Jay on March 05, 2005, 06:44:33 PM

Al!!!!!!! You were peeking!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post by: Beth Kirkley on March 06, 2005, 01:04:29 AM

WoW! How in the world did you manage to catch that shot?

Beth

Title: Mating flight
Post by: Anonymous 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.
:D Al

Title: Mating flight
Post by: leominsterbeeman on March 06, 2005, 09:20:44 PM

Hey! Is that Porn on this site? :)

Title: Mating flight
Post by: Anonymous 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?

:D Al

Title: Mating flight
Post by: asleitch 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

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Post by: Horns Pure Honey on March 07, 2005, 06:01:39 PM

that is a great shot!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

Title: Mating flight
Post by: Apis629 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.

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