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Chase...is it true if u react violently to a bee or yellowjacket, they will become aggressive. So often, I have been told to act neutral when they are buzzing around me but I start swinging at them and running trying to get rid of them. I am not allergic to them but I have been stung before and it is not something I enjoy! LOL!

BTW, I love snakes..:giggle:
 
Colony Collapse Disorder is still a mystery, having about as many theories as there are research apiaries. I'm trying to reject the major theories in my novel, until only my fictional cause seems to remain. Anyway, we don't really know that the workers are dead; they just don't return to their hives. It could be that they are reverting back to the wild, you know swarming to hollow trees in the deep woods. As far fetched as that may be, it's the fictional idea I'm playing with. Pure speculation, for sure, and I'm trying to mix in a bit of magic and romance to the mystery featuring a deaf bee scientist.



Here is a peice of science you maybe able to use in your novel. There was
at one point a Viral Theory floating around about Bee disorder. I've always
thought a cool way to test this would be to place some liqued L-Lysine in
their nectar feed, (assuming their immune systems respond in the same
way humans do) Hi argine and low lysine concentrations promote viral
growth in humans. Perhaps it would be better to mist the colony with it
instead because I don't know what the amino acid concentrations would
be in the nectar or what is in that stuff you guys feed them in the winter.
I have a bee keeper down the road from us. He gives me honey and I cut
his hair. I love to barter!
 
Warm welcomes

Pete, ha ha ha, for a long time I thought my profession was permanent student. After college, I taught six years at a high school, but many nights were spent in some night class or other. Idaho State (go, Bengals) actually paid me (although being a scum-of-the-earth teaching and research assistant did feel a great deal like slavery) so grad school was a profession of sorts. I've enjoyed your writing at this site. Maybe someday we might exchange some stories-in-progress for mutual critique. One thing I miss here in Oregon is an active writers' group.

Shel, yup, waving arms and shouting ticks off bees and hornets just like it ticks off us deafies. You might as well wave a sign "Sting me!" The best defense is to slowly cover your head with your shirt or at least protect your eyes with your hands and walk away. I hate stings, too. I wish Oregon were like Ireland and I were St. Patrick. I'd chase all the snakes to Maryland to be with you, ha ha ha.

Cathe, the apiary in Colton I used to work for just trucked a lot of our bees back from the onion fields near Madras in your oart of Oregon. They're resting up to go to the almond orchards around Oakdale, California, in January. I have heard of the virus theory, but that should produce masses of dead bees, and no one has noticed any. I like your lab process. I'm sure something like that is being done, and I plan to have a research lab in my book. Thanks for any and all ideas.
 
Wow! What an interesting background you have! I look forward to your contributions on this forum.

LOL....I understand your remarks about forced slavery in the form of TA and RA on a very personal level! I have recently returned to school to pursue my PhD and the stipend and the work hours rarely equalize! LOL.
 
Yeah but maybe birds think virus infected bees taste really good.
Like choclate covered peanuts. I never drop any of those guys on
the ground, or leave a trail. mmmmmmm:giggle:
 
TA and RA

Ain't it awful, Jillio? The competition for available TA slots was fierce, so you either kissed up to the tenured profs and worked your butt off or some bright kid from Harvard or nun on sabbatical would be "earning" your stipend next semester. Besides prepping and teaching my own 101 classes of surly freshmen, many of whom have only contempt for TAs, I got coffee, ran errands, subbed for my professor, corrected his or her papers. TV shows show how hard it is on hospital residents, but I remember getting kicked out of the campus library at 1 a.m. and sleeping in my car so I could go back in when it opened at 7 a.m. The only reason I loved it was I thoroughly enjoy abuse and suffering, ha ha ha. Good luck to you!
 
Chase said:
Ain't it awful, Jillio? The competition for available TA slots was fierce, so you either kissed up to the tenured profs and worked your butt off or some bright kid from Harvard or nun on sabbatical would be "earning" your stipend next semester. Besides prepping and teaching my own 101 classes of surly freshmen, many of whom have only contempt for TAs, I got coffee, ran errands, subbed for my professor, corrected his or her papers. TV shows show how hard it is on hospital residents, but I remember getting kicked out of the campus library at 1 a.m. and sleeping in my car so I could go back in when it opened at 7 a.m. The only reason I loved it was I thoroughly enjoy abuse and suffering, ha ha ha. Good luck to you!
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Thanks for your wishes! I'm sure it will be well worth enduring the situation! I'm also teaching 101 psych courses, but have a fairly understanding clinical psych prof I do my TA with. I will be spending my week-end correcting papers, however, and some of the writing is atrocious! We are in the process of writing a grant proposal for funding to use the Myer's Briggs assessment as a tool for academic advising, especially in relation to students with disabilities. I'm also interning in the disability services office, and I find the inefficiency and apathy there more trying than anything else!
 
Chase, many thanks for your helpful info on how to react around bees or yellowjackets.
 
Keep them cards 'n' letters comin'

Cathe,

Your point is well taken, and I'm slapping my forehead for needing my nose rubbed in the obvious. Birds eat lots of bees, so I'm sure finding lots of dead ones would be like "supper's on!" Skunks also enjoy diets of bees; they even scratch on hives to draw 'em out and eat 'em live.

Careful, girl, or I may be begging you to read over a manuscript to find holes like that. I already have a friend at St. Charles's Hospital in Bend I plan to blackmail into reading it.
 
Thanks for your kind welcome, GarnetTigerMom.
 
I would love to look over your manuscript. I just finished editing
a paper my hubby was writing for a response to his job evaluation.
Trouble is he was a Journalist and is a veteran, (airforce) so it
sounded like a mixture of an editorial and a fanatic on a soap box!
I had to edit it 4 times because he kept putting irrelevant comments,
(even though they were accurate, except where they were his
opinions!) Whew, but after 24 years of marriage he accepts,
that I'm much better at psychological shmooozing and unruffling
feathers than he is.:cool:
 
Welcome!

Hello, Chase. I come from a family of deaf parents (one from birth; one from early childhood illness), my sister has severe hearing "loss" since birth and uses hearing aids (I'm like my sister except I went to a school for the deaf), and my brother, the eldest, has now just discovered that he has, what my sister and I have, "progressive hearing loss."

Nice to know we're not alone! Welcome aboard! :h5:
 
100

My hundredth post is to thank the members of AllDeaf for the rich education I’ve already received here at this site. My deaf sister and I have always been close, but I’m viewing some nuances in her life a bit clearer.

A new word, “audism,” has come into my vocabulary, and I ’m getting insights into both hearies and deafies who practice it at some level, as well as appreciating those who struggle against it every day, for their own benefit--and for mine.

I'm gaining knowledge about myself, and maybe that’s the better aspect for which to be thankful. I've made mistakes here, to be sure, but perhaps with a little forgiveness and a lot of luck, the best is yet to come.

Again, thanks!
 
I feel as if I hardly knew you. Why have you removed all your information and disappeared?

Game players will be lost without you.
 
Welcome to alldeaf Chase and that sounds so interesting. Mysteries are my book/tvshow/movie of choice and always have been. I hope you make a go of it and I can then buy one of your books and say I know this person...Good luck!
 
Oh boy. :roll: I have known Chase on many of his threads here on forum. I was here on 2006 but disappear for a while because I was busy until Alex e-mailed me, so I assumed that Chase disappeared for a while too until he came back. Is that correct, Chase? :hmm:
 
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