Here is a link originally posted by Manowar (thanks) and well worth passing on as a STICKY in the forum main page. Thanks to the people who host the page where these terms are found too...
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/bkCD/glossary.html
Newbie from South Jersey and apreciate your site immensely. A glossary is great, but wat I have the most problems w/ are the initials not found in glossaries generally. Such as SHB, and SMR to name a few. There more i cant think of at the moment, but thanx in advance to whomever helps us beginners.
Michael Bush's reply to my request posted mar 29 2005 covers many abreviations.
great site john. thats where my bee class instructer told us to go.
did you know the psu stands for penn state university?
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesglossary.htm
hmmm, are you sure that the last part is correct???
Honeydew - a sweet liquid excreted by aphids, leaflioppers, and some scale insects that is col lected by bees, especially in the absence of a good source of nectar.
i think, i'd have to disagree with this one, since aphids aren't active all year long, they also give honey flows
http://www.answers.com/honeydew&r=67
hon·ey·dew (hŭn'ē-dū', -dyū') pronunciation
n.
1. A sweet sticky substance excreted by various insects, especially aphids, on the leaves of plants.
2. A sweet exudate similar to honeydew on the leaves of plants.
3. A honeydew melon.
NUC
th word that boggles my mind everytime i hear it!! even in our language we have some...issues about the word that's the closest to your Nuc.
ok so a NUC, a nucleous, what are the specifics that make a hive only a NUC. i know it has to be small and non-honey harvestable, or can it?
would the most appropriate term for a nuc be-a reserve colony???
so, the most common nuc-hive box is what? a 5 frame LR deep, right? but..given the volume and all...let say...Brians hive could just as well serve one as a nuc, right? i mean, the volume of an 8 frame medium..is close to equvivalent to 5 frame deep right?
basicly, you call a nuc every hive, from which you don't expect to harvest honey from, right?
Nuc: from nucleous (a center or core), a small beehive used for starting a hive or in rearing queens usually 3-5 frames in width. Nucs are also used for holding extra queens and as bait hives for swarm collection. I have a neighbor who is 94 and started beekeeping in 1945--he uses all medium 5 frame nuc boxes for everything--even harvesting his honey. But, yes, one does not usually expect to harvest honey from a nuc hive.
A hive with 8 or more frames is considered a full sized hive even if it only has 1 box. My Nucs are 5 frame mediums boxes. The 2 splits I did in July were each put into a 5 frame medium box--2 frames brood, 2 frame honey/pollen and 1 foundationless frame. Those 2 nucs are now on their 2nd box for a total of 10 medium frames each.
When I add more to these 2 nucs in the spring I will put each 1 into a 2 tier 8 frame placing the brood frames in the center of both boxes with empty frames on the outside of each box.
As Brian says, anything less than a full fledged colony, but having all the essentials of one is a nuc. Meaning it has honey, pollen, open brood, capped brood, emerging brood, nurse bees, field bees and a queen. But all in less than normal amounts so that it can build up to a real hive eventually.
BTW as far as I know the term "nucleus" hive was coined by L.L. Langstroth in "The Hive and the Honey Bee".
Pingers
A term that I use to describe guard bees than ping the veil, even though they have been smoked. Once in a while, there is always the rouge pinger.
With kind regards,
the bee lady in TN
LOB - Low on bees.
X - Cross or mean bees
SWM - Swarm
VQ - Virgin queen
+ Q - Plus a queen
- Q - minus a queen
8 F - Eight frames of bees
FQ - Failing queen
PH - Pulled honey
SWF - Supered with foundation.
SWC - Supered with comb.
F - Feeder
Regards,
Ernie
And here is a dictionary:
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesterms.htm
Very useful information when speaking the bee language. Very helpful. Thank you for listing.
GB...Gerald Barrett ;)
Great thread!! Keep it up everyone!
Very informative :-D
Hi,
here you can find a polyglot dictionary (in english,romanian,french,italian,spanish):
http://world.proapicultura.ro/dictionar_poliglot/englez/poliglot_en.htm (http://world.proapicultura.ro/dictionar_poliglot/englez/poliglot_en.htm)
or an bilingual beekeeping dictionary, in english and romanian:
http://world.proapicultura.ro/dictionar_apicol/dictionar_apicol.htm (http://world.proapicultura.ro/dictionar_apicol/dictionar_apicol.htm)
I hope it will help.
Most of the words I use are not on the list... :)
greg, this list is for when they are NOT stinging.
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