Market Farming

[Deb Taft <growbd AT aol.com>]

Hi Mike.

This one is actually on its own at a separate beeyard.  The ones at my little 
field are 

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Mike Rock <mikerock AT mhtc.net> wrote:

> 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!
>> Deb
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> Beth Spaugh
>> Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY
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>> Moore Lappe
>> From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
>> [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
>> 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)...  
>> ...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.
>> 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.  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.  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!
>> 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.
>> Best,
>> Deb
>> Sleepy Hollow NY, where we got another 5+ inches of snow last night
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