Market Farming

[Mike Rock <mikerock AT mhtc.net>]

Deb,
Where in the grand scheme of things is the hot hive?  Usually my two end 
colonies, wherever the row, are the hotties.  They catch all the 
drifters and get the influence from every queen.  The ones in the middle 
seem calm, no matter which yard.

Mike

Deb Taft wrote:
> Thanks Beth.  Maybe I should do some closer observation with and without my 
> cell phone on.  I only have one that's consistently ornery but maybe they'd 
> chill out a bit if I turned the phone off.  I'll try it!
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> From: Beth Spaugh <lists AT rhomestead.com>
> To: 'Market Farming' <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 3:42 pm
> Subject: [Market-farming] bees and cell phones
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> It is my bee mentor's observation that having a cell phone on when close to the hives 
> makes them irritable.  He is a pretty good observer. I don't think he has a cell phone, 
> so he would have gotten the observation from another beekeeper, but when I started out 
> and would go watch/ "help" him to learn, he demanded no cell phones.
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> Which reminds me: I got quite the start last week when I thought I'd quickly lift off the lid, slap an empty box on and lay a jar of crystallized honey in by the hole in the inner cover.  I had checked the hives two days previously and this one was getting up near the top. I lifted the lid and they came boiling out at me.  Even in summer my girls are usually calm, but not that day.  No animal tracks in the snow.  The only thing I can think that ticked them off was that when I had been down the other time, to make sure they weren't snowed in, as I cleared their entrance I also took a twig and pulled out dead bees to be sure the entrance wasn't clogged.  They may have remembered that and correlated it with the noisy snow shoes.
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> I went ahead and gave the other hive a jar of honey and they were totally docile, but also not up to the top yet.
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> Beth Spaugh
> Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY
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> [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Deb Taft
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:44 PM
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Square up
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> I pay $70 a month ($840/year) for my AT&T iPhone plan, which includes 200 MB of data.  I have exceeded that twice and got charged an additional $15 for an additional 200 MB.  If I decide to go with Square Up, I'll need to bump it up to their 2 GB data plan for $25/month ($80/month total)...  
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> ...UNLESS the market I'm planning to sell at is within a free wifi network.  
> If so, all the data transfer I use will not count against my plan.
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> This is not a horrifying amount to me.  I was paying about $125/month when I was on Verizon using a Blackberry.  The iPhone is so superior to the Blackberry model I had that putting them in the same sentence seems ridiculous.  The lower price is, in part, because my partner and I have a Family plan.  
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> I use data all the time.  I check my email when I'm waiting in a line, I text my beau about what he wants for dinner, when someone wonders the name of the actor who played Gidget's Dad I google it so we have the answer right away, I stream radio stations from around the world.  I'm one of those people...though I don't use it when I could be having a conversation with a live person in front of me, while I'm driving or when I'm walking down a crowded sidewalk in the city.  
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> So it is not a leap price-wise for me to accommodate something like Square 
> Up.  I can understand how it might be a shock to see what the rest of us are 
> spending if you haven't been using a smart phone!  I would just say that if 
> you get a data plan and an iPhone ( have also heard great things about the 
> Androids...but I've drunk the Apple juice! ) you WILL use it for more than 
> taking credit cards at market and doing AgSquared updates!
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> I am a beekeeper too.  I don't think there is clear evidence that cell phone 
> signals interfere with them.  If they do, it's likely to be the soup of 
> signals we're all moving through everywhere we go (especially here in the 
> densely populated northeast) rather than the particular single signal coming 
> into and going out of a phone.  I am willing to be proven wrong about this 
> and would absolutely appreciate some links to info that would convince me to 
> turn my phone off in the field.  I love the little ladies and would not have 
> a problem turning it off if it would make their lives better.
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> Best,
> Deb
> Sleepy Hollow NY, where we got another 5+ inches of snow last night
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