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Talk:Karl Kehrle

message: Brother Adam was one of the greatest men of the 20th century, although he was a humble and simple monk. He led no government, fought no wars and kept no money; while he quietly helped all of us prosper. His bee breed is used around the world and has increased our global food supply. This man's importance can't be understated.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.0.205.213 (talk) 07:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The dates of birth and death are inconsistent (see introduction and box).
ICE77 (talk) 01:03, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates of birth and death inconsistent 

message: I've removed the Template which was requesting additional Sources etc. as these have now been provided and since the initial request multiple sources have been added to improve the article. Bibby (talk) 21:03, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template
Talk:Italian bee

message: I thought this might be useful for the discussion of Ligustica, since it needs more sources. sklundy (talk) 14:36, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brother Adam on Ligustica 

message: The article needs to be fixed and it could use some expansion.
1. The section entitled "Strenghts" lists:
:a. "for areas with continuous nectar flow and favorable weather throughout the summer"
:b. "industry"
:c. "a willingness to enter supers"
:d. "tendency to collect flower honey rather than honey dew (of value only in countries where the colour of the honey determines the price)"
:a. sounds silly
:b. should be "industrious"
:c. sounds silly (what's the meaning of it is beyond me)
:d. it's redundant with the previous section
2. The last three entries of the section entitled "Weaknesses" seem inappropriate and don't sound like weaknesses but rather like suggestions
3. Under "Selective breeding", "Availability and queen cost" does not make much sense to me.
4. The last entry in the "Worldwide distribution" is a total mess and it needs to be rewritten.
ICE77 (talk) 06:00, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments and suggestions 
Talk:Honey bee life cycle

message: May I humbly suggest moving this article to Life cycle of the Western honey bee. This would allow a sereies of Life cycle of the ... articles. And hopefully a companion List of insect life cycles, List of amphibian life cycles, List of plant life cycles, List of fungus lifecycles ... etc. and List of lists of life cycles.
At present this appears to be the only single-species lifecycle article, but think of the future.
At the moment I'm just suggesting the initial move to Life cycle of the Western honey bee and perhaps putative creation of List of organism life cycles or List of life cycles (which might serve as redlist request list, or not).
Discuss--ZayZayEM (talk) 04:39, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is in any case insufficient, as it only includes the physiological development. The life cycle of the worker bee continues through recognised phases as a nursery worker, feeding brood, cleaning cells, building comb, maintaining the temperature of the hive and evaporating water, guarding it, until finally they wear themselves out as foragers collecting pollen, nectar, water and propolis.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.211.36.205 (talk) 04:09, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested move 

message: 1. In the first table, for the queen, capping occurs on day 7 1/2 but larva is up to day 8 1/2. Is it correct? It sounds contradictory.
2. In the second table, what exactly is yolk?
ICE77 (talk) 06:48, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yolk and capping 

message: The link for Stone's Overview of Bee Biology is not working (shows this message after clicking on the link: "This site can’t be reachedwww.uni.uiuc.edu’s server IP address could not be found. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"). Drworm921 (talk) 19:39, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source Links
Talk:List of honey bee pheromones

message: The links to pherobase.com in section 3 are broken. The link for "(E)-9-Oxodec-2-enoic acid" should perhaps be http://www.pherobase.com/database/compound/compounds-detail-E2-9-oxo-10Acid.php .. but this appears to require registration. A link which is accessible without registration would be preferable.
The link for "(R,E)-(−)-9-Hydroxy-2-enoic acid" is also broken. I can't find an exact match for this on pherobase: both http://www.pherobase.com/database/compound/compounds-detail-10-hydroxy-delta2-10Acid.php (10-Hydroxydec-2-enoic acid) and http://www.pherobase.com/database/compound/compounds-detail-E2-9-oxo-10Acid.php ((E)-10-Hydroxy-2-decenoic acid) are both queen bee pheromones.
Can someone with more knowledge in this area correct these links?
User:mnjuckes  —Preceding undated comment added 11:39, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Section 3: Broken Links in Queen Pheromone Discussion
Talk:Fumagillin

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thread_title:  Reference to broken DOI 

message: The structure currently shown is incorrect as it contains a tertiary alcohol instead of the (correct) spiro epoxide.  The correct structure is shown on the Aldrich website and in the synthetic papers cited in the article (such as ACIEE 2006, 45, 789).
Countmippipopolous (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 02:34, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I think I fixed it.  The chemdraw file got a little messy in changing the file formats/uploading, but considering that the incorrect structure has been up for years, I doubt anyone cares enough to do anything to fix it.
Countmippipopolous (talk) 02:51, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct Structure 

message: Could we have some info about this?  Rosieredfield (talk) 19:46, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mode of action?
Talk:Hive frame

message: I am working with the Global Lives Project, a non-profit organization that captures a library of human life experience that provides educational insight into people's lives and occupations around the world. I have a video of a Serbian man named Dusan Lazic, who lives in Vojka, Serbia and has been a beekeeper since 2004. This video very clearly demonstrates the activities and techniques involved in building a bee hive frame. I thought it would be a cool video to post onto the page for educational insights. The video can be found here.  Do you think this would be a cool / valuable addition to the page, so that people can see first hand how a frame is built? Thoughts?  Thank you. Peter Hogue (talk) 21:17, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding video on how to make a bee hive frame?  

message: It seems that there is some bias in this article in mentioning wax foundation and no mention of plastic foundation. This may be due to the fact that most of the quoted sources on the Wax Foundation page are from Serbian beekeepers in Serbian. I don't read Serbian. 
There are many beekeepers who feel that plastic foundation is evil and should not be used, and there are plenty of beekeepers who consider it an essential tool in beekeeping.
It may be that the solution is to modify the Wax Foundation page to be about Bee Hive Foundation and then change the link text. The way this article reads though, there is no mention of the existence of plastic foundation. We won't even talk about aluminum foundation, which apparently was made during WWII when plastic was scarce. This stuff still appears in beehives occasionally, much to the surprise of the beekeeper when (s)he scrapes the wax off an old frame.
Ferthalangur (talk) 15:14, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of plastic foundation?
Talk:Caucasian honey bee

message: The article says the caucasica is a common misspelling of caucus. Do we have a source that states that this is a misspelling, and not the correct spelling? Caucasica is common indeed in scholarly literature, journal articles, textbooks, etc. It is far more common than caucusia. Rwflammang (talk) 14:11, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misspelling?
Talk:Worker bee

message: Does this breakdown of tasks apply to all species of honey bee? What are the sources? Cayte 23:39, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Worker bee task

message: "The queen does not usually lay eggs into queen cells; they are moved to queen cells by a worker bee."
I don't believe there is ANY evidence that workers ever move eggs.  (Remove, yes, but move, no.)  Eggs ARE layed in queen cells by the queen.  I have observed in my observation hives and it is generally held that is what happens.
Michael Bush (talk) 19:07, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Moving Eggs

message: What is the gender of worker bee? How to prove that its female? The one and only female in a bee colony is queen bee. it mates with male and lay eggs, but ther worker cannot Noblevmy (talk) 09:07, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I will go ahead and revert it. If this is wrong please provide the proper references. --Phoenix ICR (talk) 21:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worker bee -  Female? 

message: Is it just me or is this paragraph:
The barbs on the stinger will not catch on most animals besides mammals and birds. This means that such animals can be stung many times by the same bee.
Phrased really badly? 
82.152.34.158 (talk) 13:34, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really bad phrasing 

message: — Assignment last updated by MillyA1116 (talk) 19:12, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: BIOL 412 HONORS

message: I made some edits to the article to add citations, relevant information, delete irrelevant information, and improve the article's balance.  MillyA1116 (talk) 00:19, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Edits 

message: — Assignment last updated by Cara.begley (talk) 17:40, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: BIOL 412 HONORS
Talk:Pollen basket

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Apis mellifera flying.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on August 25, 2010. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2010-08-25. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng  {chat} 00:06, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Apis mellifera flying.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: Maybe in very rare instances it’d be worth mentioning that in German, with its yet non-existing article Pollenhöschen, the pollen baskets („Körbe“) are called „Höschen“ (IPA: ), which translates as panties or knickers. -- Gohnarch░ 19:56, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  German ''Pollenhöschen'' are pollen panties 

message: This study  treats Corbiculate bees like a phylogenic category rather than a morphological one - would adding that information to the article about Euglossini being a sister group to the other three taxa be irrelevant since the article only treats the trait as a morphological characteristic? I wasn’t sure if I should -it it in or where to if I did. Feralcateater000 (talk) 17:29, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: question
Talk:Queen excluder

message: As a non-beekeeper, I found the exact measurement surprising.  Is there no variation in the measurement for different bee varieties?  Can someone explain why in the article?  Tempshill (talk) 05:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: The inclusion of the "Queen excluder" in Category: Ukrainian inventions is interesting, but there's not even a mention of this in the article itself.  If no source can be found, the category template should be removed.  yoyo (talk) 14:07, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ukrainian inventions" requires a source
Talk:Robbing

message: Seems to me this article should be moved to Beehive Robbing or something like it. --Bill W. Smith, Jr. (talk/contribs) 02:39, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Or at least be part of "Bee" article. Rastapunk (talk) 12:12, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Ambiguous?
Talk:Amos Root

message: Root was the first person to publish an eyewitness account of an aircraft in flight. Where was it published? What paper or magazine? What city?  Trekphiler 16:40, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He wrote the articles in the journal his company published called "Gleanings in Bee Culture". City of publication probably Medina, Ohio where he lived and worked. See the Quotes section and its footnote (#44 as of today) in the Wright brothers Wikipedia article. DonFB 17:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Channel 7 Action News

message: What is a "drogue house" and can we provide a link to the definition?  12.168.68.11 22:16, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Drogue house"? 

message: see: Amos Root the man who made the Wright brothers known to the world
I noticed that the Wikipedia page dedicated to A. I. Root is not so well documented and for this reason I decided to give you the link to the book I mentioned where you can read all letters and articles written by Amos Root in connection with the activity of the two inventors from Dayton.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.62.236.137 (talk) 23:08, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  New free book. It contains more that 70 letters and 100 articles written by Amos Root
Talk:Moral clarity

message: According to this NY Times article, the term "Moral clarity" arose in the 1950s and its use is no longer dominated by conservaties. E.g. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez used it in 2018 in reference to herself. This article needs to be completely rewritten with a wider range of sources. It's also worth looking into whether moral clarity is sufficiently similar to [moral conviction|] that it would be appropriate to treat them as the same topic. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 05:45, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article seems to be completely off-base
Talk:Thelytoky

message: This has a lot of jargon and is hard to understand for lay-people  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.41.96.6 (talk) 03:06, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The total number of animal species on the planet has to be only an estimate, but surely 1,500 represents only about 0.1%, not 1%?Dasyornis (talk) 04:19, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of animal species 

message: The introduction to this article claims thelytoky, "females are produced from unfertilized eggs," yet the diagrams go on to describe haploid males being produced by unfertilized bee eggs. The article needs to be modified to make the examples and definitions consistent, whether by broadening the definition or eliminating the haplodiploid example.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.53.24.225 (talk) 14:47, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent definitions 

message: This one
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parth%C3%A9nogen%C3%A8se_th%C3%A9lytoque 188.13.94.125 (talk) 09:42, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isn't this the french version of this page? 

message: — Assignment last updated by DiligentBunny (talk) 21:25, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Developmental and Molecular Biology Spring 2023
Talk:Waggle dance

message: “See also Young's Brewery?” Is this encyclopædic? Is this necessary? —Wiki Wikardo 21:01, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, Youngs have a rather nice ale called Waggledance - I've looked the beer up on Wikipedia in the past veghead (talk) 21:23, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Uses 

message: Does the waggle frequency vary by species or any other determined factor?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.167.254.100 (talk) 12:57, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Waggle Frequency? 

message: This is an interesting article. It's not extremely detailed but it has good information. I need to point out a few things regarding the text.
1. The second part of "The dance language vs. the waggle dance" is not quite clear to me. It just doesn't make any sense to point out things that bees can do even if they do not decode the waggle dance. It's just pointless.
2. The second paragraph of "Efficiency and adaptation" is not clear. "honey bee colonies routinely perform the waggle dance, but can still successfully forage when the dance is experimentally obscured" just doesn't make much sense to me, mostly because I don't understand what obscures the waggle dance.
3. The section called "Applications to operations research" is rather cryptic and not well explained.
ICE77 (talk) 05:55, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments on the article 

message: The image File:Bee dance.png which describes waggle dance (with the use of CI Image:Bee2.jpg for the double collage) features not a bee, but a fly. Nice to see Batesian mimicry in effect.  Snjón (talk) 21:31, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Someone should paste a bee in the image, then, as the collage is (otherwise) very helpful. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:34, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a bee
Talk:Waxworm

message: are waxworms the same as bee moths? I don't even know is people use the term "bee moth" anywhere else... so no one may have an answer.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by T-Money92 (talk • contribs) 04:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bee moths 

message: bee moth - MUCH more commonly called wax moth among bee keepers has a caterpillar in its early larval stages (not a worm!). Wax moth larvae (the caterpillars of the wax moth) are called wax moth larvae, or just wax moth. Waxworm is clearly a childish naming by someone who didn't now what they were looking at! One can buy waxworms for feeding to lizards etc., these are NOT silk producing wax moth larvae, but the larvae of beetles! Have you managed to mix up throughout your treatise, wax moth and waxworms? Growing wax moth larvae as bait or for food, will be VERY expensive compared to feeding bran to beetle larvae. Please check your research, and where appropriate differentiate between naming in different countries.
Minipinion (talk) 14:50, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bee moths / waxworms 

message: The article showing they can't digest plastic might be an ongoing research question. There seems to be other groups of scientists who found they can digest it. 
https://www.lbf.fraunhofer.de/de/presse/presseinformationen/kunststoffrecycling-raupen-der-wachsmotte-fressen-plastik.html - they can't 
https://www.brandonu.ca/research-connection/article/how-waxworms-eat-plastic/ - they can
Maybe it should be marked as an open subject of research?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.157.157.74 (talk) 10:17, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biodegredation
Talk:Winter cluster

message: Maintaining a temperature several degrees higher than surroundings must, even for a cluster of that size require a significant amount of heat generation for such a small animal.  Do we know of any specific heat generation methods or behaviours?  Do the individuals move around the cluster to keep each other warm or to take their turn around the outside of the cluster?
IceDragon64 (talk) 21:50, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do they generate the heat?
Talk:Comb honey

message: We currently say this:
Ok, so how is most honey produced?  The article on the honey extractor doesn't say.  --Doradus 04:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the alternative? 
Talk:Leptospermum honey

message: Support: Merge with Mānuka honey. I have no idea why this stub article wasn't merged already. A couple sentences? The Manuka honey article can bring out the tree name sooner, and it's a done deal from what I see. Others? I would think that whoever suggested the merge would have started this conversation, along with whoever suggested it to him/her. Alrich44 (talk) 21:36, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There was only one sentence in the Leptospermum honey article, "Leptospermum honey is honey made from the tree species Leptospermum, found in New Zealand and Australia." Apparently Medihoney can be made from any variety of Leptospermum tree; where as, Manuka honey is made from only the subspecies Leptospermum scoparium. So, I could not simply merge the Leptospermum honey article into the Manuka honey article. Instead, I added the one sentence content here in Medihoney, redirected the Leptospermum honey article here, and added See also the Manuka honey article. Alrich44 (talk) 17:14, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Mānuka honey
Talk:Pine honey

message: To the person who wrote this article:
It was a dreadfully bad translation and had to be completely redone. Regardless of your purposes, you do your subject a disservice by publishing such a thing before you have it read by a literate English copy editor. You merely expose your grave shortcomings in written English and reflect badly upon your subject.  
To all readers:
Even after an extensive edit (for language and not for content), this article remains a thinly disguised promotion piece for a particular brand of Greek pine honey, with unsubstantiated claims and no sources. I recommend that the entire piece be referred to a legitimate bee keeper for fact checking and verification.
SamJohn2013 (talk) 15:15, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please write in English.
Talk:Medovukha

message: who claims it? Our own http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alcohol - section about the Greece  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.118.90 (talk) 21:54, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Medovukha predates whiskey and sake

message: Isn't "wild honey farming" a contradiction in terms? Shouldn't it be either "wild honey collecting" or "bee keeping"?.--Tchoutoye (talk) 04:10, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Wild honey farming"

message: This article carries no real information. In very many sentences, it is claimed that it's difficult to make this drink but no examples are given why that would be. The manufacturing process, with external links to support the story, should be covered at least a little bit.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.27.110.230 (talk) 19:16, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, mead replaced by wine? Mead IS a wine, a pale dry one.  Decades to ferment? I made 5x5 gallon carboys of it. Primary, secondary, aged for 5 years. Exposed honey is subject to the batch-killing "wine flower" mold. 98.144.238.191 (talk) 22:15, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Basically useless
Talk:Lilavati of Polonnaruwa

message: Completely rewrote the article with references to the original texts of the Culavamsa, references and notes. The previous article consisted of a lot of unsubstantiated claims and was completely the wrong tone for an encyclopedia. Furthermore it contained a long description of ancient warfare in Sri Lanka which was derived from the Mahavamsa which does not deal with this period in Sri Lankan history. A discussion of such military tactics would be better off in an article of its own or under the entry for Parakramabahu the Great. DocSubster 13:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Can someone please change the title of this page to 'Queen Lilavati' please, as I have no idea how to do it myself! 131.111.8.98 09:35, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: it should be done..I just came across to this article and I think the title should be definitely changed..--Iwazaki 04:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: PLEASE CHANGE TITLE