Beekeepers stop bitching and start thinking: sometimes its not the bees its you!!
Beekeepers, Stop Blaming the Bees and Start Looking in the Mirror!!! One thing I have noticed in modern beekeeping is how quickly we blame the bees for problems that often begin with us. But how often do we stop and seriously ask: what exactly did we do before the problem appeared?Because if we are honest, many colonies are simply reacting to the conditions we create around them.Take aggression for example. A colony gets defensive during inspection and immediately people rush to say: “Requeen it.” But nobody asks whether the hive was opened during cold weather, heavy wind, nectar dearth or storm pressure. Nobody asks whether it was already the second or third inspection of the day because the beekeeper forgot equipment, wanted to show the bees to friends or decided to try a new trick they saw online the night before. Bees are not decorative pets. You cannot repeatedly disturb thousands of highly organized living creatures under stressful conditions and then act shocked...