>
> >There are plenty of people keeping bees on a commercial scale and
> reporting
> to us their findings; but few (except Tom Seeley) seem to be studying bees
> kept  in a more or less natural way, or, if they are, they aren't telling
> us
> about  it.


There is a huge silent group of part time beekeepers who do minimal
treatment, and often minimal management, and have bees that survive pretty
well.

One point that I stands out is that beekeeping is not scaleable. What works
at one scale may not work at all at another scale.

Randy Oliver

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