Talk:Queen bee
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I have actually heard the piping of queen bees. It sounds like the peep of a peeper frog or the sound of a rather high-pitched whistle or harmonica.
Research in the 60s (?) indicated that the body of the queen produces a hormone that inhibits queen-rearing behavior on the part of worker bees. She can only produce a certain amount. So the more bees there are in a colony the lower the concentration of this hormone. When it falls below a critical value, then the queen-rearing behavior is released for normal swarming. Should the queen be killed the concentration of the hormone falls quickly to zero and the workers select several of the recently laid eggs to rear as queens.
I think that the article should reflect this fact.
Who will be first to fill in the taxonomy? RedWolf 06:20, Nov 27, 2003 (UTC)
Surely there is an article on the honeybee. Presumably the taxonomy stuff would go there.
Patrick0Moran 07:18, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I added the links back because of two reasons: 1) people who work on articles of colors can look what links there and add this to the information about uses of colors, and 2) it enables colorblind people to actually read the article. I hope it's aestethically pleasing as well :) Nikola 08:11, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] Incorporating other articles into this article
I'm looking for information on bees. I found the information about one aspect of the bee colony, ie the queen scattered around on four seperate page entitled
- Queen bee
- Virgin queen (with a disambig. from Elizabeth I of England)
- Piping queens (describing the noise angry females of the species make)
- Supersedure (describing the process by which one queen replaces another)
Why spread all this stuff around when it can be neatly and conveniently placed in one article? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. Anyone looking up bees wants the info in one place. To have different articles for hives, swarms, piping queens etc etc etc is superfluous.
I'm not suggesting that any of the information is superfluous, just the superfluity of seperate articles. If anyone objects, they can put it all back. I'll leave the other pages where they are for a few days, but will transfer any discussion pertaining to the other three topics listed above to this page. Unfortunately, the history of the editting will be lost.
--Amandajm 07:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Talk: Piping Queen, transferred from other page
[edit] Piping note
- The piping sound is a G sharp or A natural.
Couldn't this vary from species to species? (A larger queen might produce a lower note, for instance?) - furrykef (Talk at me) 21:31, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Maximum temperature for Raw Honey
I understand to be called raw, honey must not be heated above a certain temperature. I don't know what those limits are, but I am under the impression it has something to do with destroying enzymes in the honey. Does anyone know the limits?
transferred by --Amandajm 07:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edit history of Virgin queen
- (cur) (last) 04:54, 27 May 2006 XC0000005 (Talk | contribs) (Reword some unclear sentences, expand (minorly))
- (cur) (last) 22:00, 4 May 2006 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) m (Reverted edits by 151.37.129.122 (talk) to last version by XC0000005)
- (cur) (last) 21:59, 4 May 2006 151.37.129.122 (Talk)
- (cur) (last) 18:06, 15 December 2005 XC0000005 (Talk | contribs) (Reword to fix description of virgin queens (mingling with other bees doesn't make them harder to find, it's the fact that they skitter off that does it.).)
- (cur) (last) 17:45, 11 October 2005 Keenan Pepper (Talk | contribs) m (grammar & style)
- (cur) (last) 13:00, 5 October 2005 Appleseed (Talk | contribs) (tweak category)
- (cur) (last) 00:28, 26 August 2005 68.39.174.230 (Talk) (Work)
- (cur) (last) 05:07, 16 August 2005 Leonard G. (Talk | contribs)
- (cur) (last) 03:21, 15 May 2005 Nameneko (Talk | contribs) m (sp)
- (cur) (last) 20:34, 9 May 2005 71.99.220.87 (Talk)
- (cur) (last) 06:40, 25 April 2005 68.39.174.150 (Talk) (Rearrainge)
- (cur) (last) 19:32, 15 April 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs)
- (cur) (last) 09:20, 14 April 2005 Allard (Talk | contribs) m
- (cur) (last) 05:40, 20 March 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs)
- (cur) (last) 02:29, 14 February 2005 Pollinator (Talk | contribs) (flesh out article)
- (cur) (last) 03:54, 1 February 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs)
[edit] Edit history of Piping queens
- (cur) (last) 00:50, 28 June 2006 NeonMerlin (Talk | contribs) m (sp)
- (cur) (last) 22:27, 26 May 2006 XC0000005 (Talk | contribs) (Revised, added supersedure to reasons why there's be multiple queens)
- (cur) (last) 13:00, 5 October 2005 Appleseed (Talk | contribs) (tweak category)
- (cur) (last) 16:59, 26 September 2005 MacsBug (Talk | contribs) m (Fixed spelling error in top section)
- (cur) (last) 03:05, 9 September 2005 Kjkolb (Talk | contribs) (wikified further as possible and removed tag)
- (cur) (last) 03:47, 2 September 2005 Kent Wang (Talk | contribs) m (copy edit)
- (cur) (last) 00:32, 26 August 2005 68.39.174.230 (Talk) (Some work)
- (cur) (last) 00:29, 26 August 2005 68.39.174.230 (Talk) (Added template)
- (cur) (last) 00:05, 26 August 2005 68.39.174.230 (Talk) (Again)
- (cur) (last) 00:05, 26 August 2005 68.39.174.230 (Talk) (Fix bad link)
- (cur) (last) 00:05, 26 August 2005 68.39.174.230 (Talk) (Some work, needs more)
- (cur) (last) 01:06, 16 May 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs) (→See also)
- (cur) (last) 01:00, 16 May 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs)
- (cur) (last) 20:50, 14 May 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs)
- (cur) (last) 03:43, 14 May 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs)
[edit] Edit History of Supersedure
- (cur) (last) 17:00, 12 June 2006 Larsinio (Talk | contribs) m
- (cur) (last) 01:02, 20 May 2006 Bryan Derksen (Talk | contribs) (replace overly broad see also list with just those entries that seem most relevant to the article)
- (cur) (last) 23:01, 23 March 2006 Mirv (Talk | contribs) (xref)
- (cur) (last) 18:25, 18 March 2006 Bluebot (Talk | contribs) (bold formatting title using AWB)
- (cur) (last) 04:03, 6 December 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs)
- (cur) (last) 02:07, 12 November 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs) m (Supercedure moved to Supersedure)
- (cur) (last) 10:26, 11 November 2005 158.36.44.66 (Talk) ("supercession" and "supercedure" changed because word does not exist (verb is latin "sedere" to sit))
- (cur) (last) 02:29, 26 August 2005 Leonard G. (Talk | contribs) (rm unsatisfied links)
- (cur) (last) 01:27, 25 August 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs)
- (cur) (last) 04:35, 23 August 2005 Leonard G. (Talk | contribs)
- (cur) (last) 04:30, 23 August 2005 Leonard G. (Talk | contribs) (Forced supercedure, balling the queen)
- (cur) (last) 05:22, 16 August 2005 Leonard G. (Talk | contribs)
- (cur) (last) 06:28, 2 April 2005 FirstPrinciples (Talk | contribs) (update link)
- (cur) (last) 04:10, 10 March 2005 Shoefly (Talk | contribs)
[edit] Moving of histories
These histories are inactive, but at least reveal who has contributed to the articles. --Amandajm 08:10, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Virgin Queens sting rivals
The article indicates that a virgin queen will kill potential rivals by stinging them. But I had heard that queens have no stingers - that part having been modified for egg laying. So do they sting, or possibly bite their rivals?
Paul epalb@honey.email.ne.jp
- Whoever told you that queens have no stingers was incorrect. I can't speak for every species of bee but honeybee queens certainly have stingers. It is part of the ovipositor but that does not preclude it's use as a stinger. It is different from the worker bee's stinger in that it is smooth instead of barbed but that's about it. Rossami (talk) 20:07, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
