Friday, January 8, 2016

Bee-ing kind

It seems to me that the beekeeper can be one of the bees deadliest enemies. Over production, stress on the bees to produce and feeding chemicals they don't need or want. Up north the hardest thing about beekeeping is keeping the bees alive through the winter. Other than that they pretty much can take care of themselves. With enough honey and wind protection they make it through the winters but some beekeepers take the honey and start feeding sugar water which is not the natural way of doing things. The bees can live like this but tend to be weak and less productive. This is where the drugs seem to come in, weak hive must be sick. Beekeepers are learning slowly that the bees can take care of themselves.

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