In other words what you are saying is until Biological beekeeping is studied through some scientific research ....
To me, all beekeping is biological. I do not understand why someone want to add that word to it. What makes me "unbiological" beekeeper?
I have degree in genetics in Helsinki University. I find quite soon, if someone is talking blaa blaa.
his could be something that really catches on and really works, and the whole world could start doing it and be successful at it, but you will not even read up on it until published in some scientific journal?
If you think so, you keep me really stupid person
What you are doing works for you in your part of this world, but how can you debate/argue the issue of biologicak beekeeping if you haven't read what people have done with it and/or know some one that does it that way.
I ask: When you have resolution, why dont use it ? Dont blame me.
You brought up the fact that a lot of the ferel bees have been wiped out because of the Vorroa mites. Was this determined because at the same time beekeepers were losing their bees to the mite and so the wild bees had to fall to them also? Did anyone go out and find all the dead ferel bee hives and study them to see what they died of? Could it be that many of them died off because of many other things such as weather, Small hive beetles, fires, pesticides, people getting rid of them as unwanted pest, just to name a few.
No no no no , you are wrong totally. When varroa came to my area, feral bees vanished during 4 year and never came back. Now feral bees are italian or Carniola. We started to keep Carniolas 10 yeasr ago. They are not real feral bees . That feral "German Black" have vanished.
Colonies could lose their queen at the wrong time of the year and never recover.
not at all. Perhaps 10% can happen so. So they vanish from earth, no. I can see that you have very little experience from bee biology.
Of the many many ways the ferel bee could have been lost, we are going to blame it on vorroa mites because that is what was wiping out domestic bees.
In Finlan we have not real feral bees. Our feral bees were in little beehives which lazy beekeepers kept in they yards and they took theree some kilos honey. And if hive died, a new swarm came in.
When mite came to district, that feral cross blooded bee race vanished totally. Never seen after that in wood lands. Before that (1988) everywhere in woodlands Isaw those black bees in fire weeds.
In Finland many professional beekeepers try to seek self resistant feral hives, but they haven't found any.
You are sayig things, what hundreds of people are makin efforts for. But if you can understand, I have no change to that kind of work and I am not to sacrifice my hives to "altar of stoneage or future".
And also: I dont recommend for beginners that kind of tricks which are not ready for normal use.
If you want understand me wrong you can do it. It do not hurt me. I have strong ego. I manage with my bees very well and my meaning in the world is nothing in this issue.
I am going to get a good honey yield next summer with normal bees and with normal combs. Nothing mystery in my system.
The core in my system is to find good pastures and I gather only cream from flowers. This is challenge for me. It is not easy to find good pastures, you know. Even my super biological knowledges does not help me allways.
Honey is in flowers and bees gather it. If flowers are over distance of 1 km yield will drop 50%. Also hive must have 5-6 boxes, so it is able to handle honey flow. So easy.
