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Offline Leather Jim

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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2014, 06:31:12 pm »
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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2014, 07:20:25 pm »
Older Queens venom drys up after a few years, so if a Young and an old Queen fight the younger one wins.

I like the clear Queen catcher so you can see when you Catch her without any mishaps. Then lay her aside and get on with what you want to do with the hive.


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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #22 on: March 06, 2014, 07:30:32 pm »
one hand catcher



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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #23 on: March 06, 2014, 08:54:58 pm »
Quote from: Edward on March 06, 2014, 07:20:25 pm
Older Queens venom drys up after a few years, so if a Young and an old Queen fight the younger one wins.

I like the clear Queen catcher so you can see when you Catch her without any mishaps. Then lay her aside and get on with what you want to do with the hive.


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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #24 on: March 06, 2014, 11:12:40 pm »
Not to get on a soapbox,  but just because someone makes a tool for something doesn't mean it is needed or makes things more efficient.    Are you more proficient using  tongs to pick a piece of candy out of a dish,  or your fingers?

   Tongs.. definitely!!  As beat up as my hands are.. if FORCED to catch a queen in my fingers I would close up the hive and walk away.  I tried practicing with drones, and after harming a few and killing one or two I gave it up.  The queen clip is a godsend.  I have yet to harm a queen with one, not that I won't, but the liklihood of harming her is FAR less with the clip than with my fingers.
     Squeezing harder and harder, and the fingers DONT move.. then suddenly CLOSE together makes catching a valuable little bug an Adrenalin adventure.  Having little feeling in those fingers doesn't help...   Have I got her?. Have I got...    POP  awwwwww........

     Having said that..  someone with more feeling and articulation shouldn't have the same problems I do.. 
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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2014, 11:17:57 pm »
Thanks Lazy.. Nicely Put!  ;) 8)
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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #26 on: March 07, 2014, 05:57:22 am »
my good neighbor a bit south of me rears a few queens.  has a crew that does the field work and a crew of ladies that catch, mark, clip and then place the new queen in an introduction cage.  I did notice that all the ladies on the crew had very nicely manacured (sp????  @#$%%) finger nails and they seem to use these much like a set of tweezers.
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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #27 on: March 07, 2014, 07:56:48 am »
Jen:

Bees and ants are both hymenoptera.  They're cousins.

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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #28 on: March 07, 2014, 08:14:44 am »
Quote from: LazyBkpr on March 06, 2014, 11:12:40 pm
Squeezing harder and harder, and the fingers DONT move.. then suddenly CLOSE together

Too much safety kleen will do it to you every time.........
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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #29 on: March 07, 2014, 05:12:33 pm »
Quote from: Robo on March 07, 2014, 08:14:44 am
Quote from: LazyBkpr on March 06, 2014, 11:12:40 pm
Squeezing harder and harder, and the fingers DONT move.. then suddenly CLOSE together

Too much safety kleen will do it to you every time.........

  Blah...  I should have died from that stuff long ago...
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Re: Queen catchers and cages
« Reply #30 on: March 07, 2014, 07:00:08 pm »
between the stroke and metalworking that's why I lost some of my muscular coordination of my left and right hands I can gripped tightly it's the gripping lightly that would do me in well more specifically do the Queen in. now I have caught queen ants before flying around the light, but them by the same token I didn't particularly care if they got hurt lol and did you know queen  fire ants will sting to lol

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