a Mark snip...
'Cruising "New Posts" it seems to me that I am seeing a lot of new beekeepers who know nothing and are looking to social media to teach them how to keep bees.'

The first thing this makes me ask is..... 'if you blindly follow along with someone who cannot keep bee alive and is constantly jumping from fad to fad should you really be surprised when the results you achieve is just another hive of dead bees'?  

I just caught a short glimpse of 'Vanishing of the Bees' and this one question above might make also make you want to ask 'is 60000 hives in the hands of 60000 novice beekeepers really equivalent (or superior) to 60000 hives in the hands of one very experienced beekeeper'?

Lastly I do think everyone should consider the secondary agenda of an operation like Bee Informed before you placed much weight in the information in that survey.  Although I have read (yep in print) of known beekeeper here (Texas) who admit that their losses are pretty much reflected in the surveys numbers.    

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html