tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478354790334189583.post1760690443828926564..comments2023-11-02T05:00:26.749-07:00Comments on beedances: The Trouble with Beekssallyfphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14422131402073429518noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478354790334189583.post-17063068004876539672015-02-07T12:22:21.258-08:002015-02-07T12:22:21.258-08:00Thank you so much for your comments. Those comment...Thank you so much for your comments. Those comments got me heavily criticised by my association, and the BBKA rejected my proposal to put hives in trees a la Tom Seeley (who endorsed the idea) and monitor them without interfering with them. I suppose it clashes with the belief that bees and nature generally can't survive without man!sallyfphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14422131402073429518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478354790334189583.post-13875512118546529152015-02-06T13:43:54.424-08:002015-02-06T13:43:54.424-08:00Wow! As I read down your list of points, I kept s...Wow! As I read down your list of points, I kept saying to myself, "yes, yes, yes! When I started beekeeping 4 years ago, I was surprised at the manipulation that Beekeepers were going through to get maximum honey production. Then when I joined the local bee club, I learned about ordering packages, medicating, and pinching the heads off the queen from a swarm. Luckily I didn't follow their advice. I built swarm bait boxes, a log hive, and practiced low intervention 'inspections,' I got my bees from swarms, one from a bait box hung on a bee tree. <br />Last year I had a Warre hive that had varroa mites. Lots of them. I let the bees take care of them and now it's my strongest hive...mite free. <br />Solarbeezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00440871593752537258noreply@blogger.com