The biggest bumble bee in the world...

[bogeyman]

Tut tut Bogey old bean,

eaves

Well we spell 'em EVES here, boy.

Don't start interfering with your fancy towny ways!

[Zippy]

Apparently, more honey is produced by urban bees than by rural ones.

The biggest bee keeper society is in London, apparently. All those penthouses I expect

I'm sure you're right - I'll ask my butler

[bogeyman]

A neighbour had an attempted break-in a while back, and a copper came round here to check that we hadn't had one too. He said he'd been a copper in this area for over 10 years and that was the first time he had driven down our road.

We figured that had to be a good sign!

Had one incident (in 13 years).

A drunken youth, from a local family of ill repute, decided to break into, and sleep in our garden shed.

God knows why - it was summer and he could have slept in the open, quite comfortably.

Anyhow, he moved everything around in the shed (lawnmower etc.) to make a space on the floor to sleep, and then the stupid ***** managed to break and cut himself to ribbons on an old mirror I had stored there.

The amount of blood was incredible. Of course, I had to clean it all up, and all he got was a small extension to his existing 'supervision order'. *****!

[TimberWolf]

I saw a couple of bees humping the other day. I almost stepped on them. One was quite big and the other small one was humping the larger one. They were totally engrossed so I left them to it.

[bogeyman]

I saw a couple of bees humping the other day. I almost stepped on them. One was quite big and the other small one was humping the larger one. They were totally engrossed so I left them to it.

Bees don't hump each other TW.

It was probably a smaller bee gleaning pollen off the back of a larger, hairier bee.

[TimberWolf]

Bees don't hump each other TW.

It was probably a smaller bee gleaning pollen off the back of a larger, hairier bee.

It certainly looked like they were humping.

[Zippy]

Bees don't hump each other TW.

It was probably a smaller bee gleaning pollen off the back of a larger, hairier bee.

I was sure they do it at least once. SO how does the young queen get new genetic material?

[sasguru]

It certainly looked like they were humping.

Perhaps they were doctor bees poncing about instead of making honey.

[TimberWolf]

Perhaps they were doctor bees poncing about instead of making honey.

What's your beef with doctors?

[bogeyman]

What's your beef with doctors?

He's probably going on about my beef with doctors that I foolishly disclosed on another thread.

No idea why (one of) Sasguru is so defensive of doctors. We can only wildly speculate.

Anyway. Bees mate on the wing. The hive swarms, follows the queen around, and the male bees (drones) mate with her on the wing.

The drones will inseminate the queen with sufficient jizz to make her a productive egg laying machine for years to come. The poor old drones get rejected from the colony and die a cold and lonely death.

A bit like Harriet Harman's ideal world view.