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> Dean, what bothers me are your continued implications that we are causing
> these new plagues... I ran my own operation for nearly 20 years without
> feeding sugar syrup or pollen supplement.
Amen brother! I spent some time over at BS and thought I'd try some of this
faith-based, guru-loving easy idiot-friendly beekeeping. I was ready.
Really ready. I had nothing to lose. I was retired and had other things on
my mind. I hadn't treated prophylactically for AFB for a few years. I had
added some SuperBee stocks (all and every one I could get) to my outfit. I
had not fed sugar for several years. My cells were "supersized", but, Hey!
Cut me some slack. I'm old school. I have an open mind (and there is
nothing wrong with that except people keep throwing their garbage into it).
I know many of the industry and science icons personally and have even
secretly touched their cloaks (occasionally while these luminaries were
distracted with important educational duties in the bar. )
Anyhow, after many years of never losing hives to varroa or AFB, I got
slayed by both. The losses were never more than I could take, since I kept
the experiments in sandboxes, but they were enough to prove what we need to
know.
What did I prove?
1.) All the management and IPM I did in my commercial years saved me a lot
of grief.
2.) Conventional wisdom and active management works.
3. BS is BS.
Medhat and the co-operative commercial beekeepers are proving that in
Alberta and others are taking note.
Ride on.
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