Will it or won't it freeze? Why yes, it definitely will!
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why won't workers replace a dead queen?
Comments (4)The definitive answer to this question may always remain with the bees. However, we know of certain physical limitations which can cause this situation to develop. The main one being, no young larvae of the proper age to feed royal jelly to. And the cause of this can be traced to at least a few known reasons. The queen bee doesn't always lay eggs consistently in time. True, during the summer months she's pretty consistent and busy doing this. But in the Spring and Autumn, it's not uncommon for her egg laying to be influenced by temperature/weather swings and she may shut down and stop laying eggs for a few days. Normally, she's still producing pheromones strong enough to alert the colony of her presence and suppress egg laying by worker bees (etc). However, if she's an old queen and her pheromone production isn't what it used to be, it may be that prior to her death, the colony interprets her lack of egg laying as just part of her normal cycle and thus they're not motivated to identify a "replacement" queen larvae until it's too late. There also have been reports of supposedly queenless and egg-less hives somehow managing to queen-right themselves when all hope was gone. The theory goes that some manner of a 'robber bee' goes and steals an egg from an adjacent colony and actually flies back to the queenless hive with it. It makes for a great little tale but remains very much unproven. I once had a permanent observation hive that had two queens in it all Spring and Summer long - a mother / daughter queen combo. Pretty unusual. The older (mother) queen had been the sole queen, the year before. I had marked her with yellow that year. The following Fall, I found both her and her daughter (which I had also marked earlier in the Spring, thinking a supercedure had taken place) crawling around in the hive. The mother queen had a much pronounced smaller body/abdomen and just a few attendants around her. The daughter queen was a nice, big healthy-looking queen with a larger number of "court" attendants around her. The colony had obviously existed this way for several months. We like to think that when a colony realizes it has lost it's queen it immediately gets to work replacing her. But unfortunately, that's not always possible. And even when a replacement queen has been raised, if she gets eaten by a bird or a dragonfly on her mating flight then the colony is still doomed. Many things can (and do) go wrong and we probably don't have a very full understanding of all these possibilities....See MoreOT- Why won't my lotus seeds sprout?
Comments (8)Bri, in your climate check out the one from walmart.com its only available online and pretty cheap but not good for a high wind area or one with prolonged freezes. Would be cheap and easy for you if you don't have too high wind gusts all the time like us. My sister uses one in Mississippi and all she uses for heat is a 100 watt bulb with a pie tin over the top of the fixture so moisture doesn't drip down on the bulb and it works fine....See MoreNeed help with Viking fridge - condensate freezes and won't drain
Comments (23)If i was a betting man...i would go with what ZL700 says. I personally think its the defrost timer. While it might close & open the contacts to the heater when you turn it by hand, it's motor could be shorted out or the plug to the timer could be loose. Lets say the plug to the timer isnt making good connection. The compressor runs its normal cooling cycle, cooling, freezing & building up ice on the evaporator the way it was designed too. After 8-12 hours the unit should go into defrost, melt the ice on evaporator and drain the water out to the pan by the compressor...but it never goes into defrost. So more & more ice slowly builds up around everything and finally after a several failed defrost cycles, it does kick into defrost. 12 - 30 minutes of defrost time, every several days, might not be enough to melt all the ice and have it drain out in time before the cooling cycle starts all over again. If you have already spent $500.00 on repairs that didnt solve the problem, spend another $20.00 for a defrost time and see if that doesnt work. Hope this helps...See MoreWhy my next washer won't be a High Efficiency
Comments (33)Josephine, my Maytag (Bravo X, 700XL2) knows what to do with wet clothes. I use the rinse and spin cycle on DH's jeans most weeks, he can really get muddy. When that cycle is over (20 min) and the rinse water has spun out, I wash them using the 'bulky' setting with deeper water or it may not get residual mud from the inside of the pants legs bottoms. I would not put partially washed clothes dirty into my dryer to only have to clean the dryer. I freely admit he can get much dirtier than average laundry. (I've insisted he stand in the garage and strip more than once. No sympathy from me when he tells me he's worked all day and he's tired, he is not coming inside like that ;)) He's hiking off trail 4 days a week for his work in all kinds of weather through all kinds of terrain. Going through beaver ponds and falling off logs. My issue isn't dirty clothes not coming clean like I said above, it's only the amount of time laundry takes. We were at his sisters weekend house a while back and I put a load of towels in the older Maytag there, got to listen to the familiar sounds of laundry, big grin on my face. And 25 minutes later I was putting the washed things into the dryer, it was the first time laundry has been fun in a few years....See Morejhl1654
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