Nikki's Blog - the SubT project

Friday, 4 December 2009

18 subt queens!!

We have collected 18 queens so far and here's one of them on some red clover!
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posted by Nikki Gammans at 02:28

5 Comments:

  • Nikki, glad to hear of real progress
    john Badmin

    By Anonymous Anonymous, At 5 December 2009 16:49  

  • Nikki,
    Glad to see youve found some queen subterraneus to bring back to Dungeness. Youve missed all the rain here in sunny Kent -lots of local flooding. Geoffs Kent bee Atlas continues to sell and he says he will visit the Kent Biological Records Centre soon. KMBRC received a prize of £100,000 free advertising by winning a 'business' award so Hannah and team are v happy. They all appear in the local newspaper this week. No doubt KMBRC can help with raising the profile of bumblebees in Kent (and other recording groups) in due course. We are not sure how we will be allowed to spend this 'money' - interestingly I will be dining tonight with a local headmaster who received a similar prize and I will be most interested to know his 'plans'.
    Look forward to hearing about your research at the Kent Field Club AGM.
    Your locals will be saddened to know that the Barbarians just beat the All Blacks this afternoon, first time since 1973.
    beat wishes,
    John Badmin,Royal Entomological Society.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, At 5 December 2009 17:02  

  • Hi Nikki.
    It looks like the Queen finding stage of the project is going well, which is wonderful news.
    I wonder if you could explain for us a little of the technique detail. I'm a hobby Beekeeper now hooked on bumblebees and to me it looks like you're using the well tried and tested HB Queen Rearer's technique of 'haircurlers' as holding cages. Is this so? and What are you feeding them on? Candy or fondant perhaps. And how are you 'storing' the queens prior to trying to get colonies initiated?
    I'm interested since the techniques could be useful for home starting colonies of commoner species for Public Demo Education purposes.
    Clive from HW.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, At 5 December 2009 20:45  

  • WOW great work. I am fasinated by bees but know very little about them. I am finding out as much as I can about them. I cant wait till subt are reintroduced

    By Blogger Sam, At 7 December 2009 17:47  

  • WOW great work. I am fasinated by bees but know very little about them. I am finding out as much as I can about them. I cant wait till subt are reintroduced

    By Blogger Sam, At 7 December 2009 17:49  

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