Hi Robert,

        Beekeeping is as old as man in self, so, market, mites, cost and
lot
of other stuff are not going to stop people from start beekeeping.

        But breeding and selection could do serious harm to beekeeping,
because it is taking down the resistence and tolerance to mites an dso
on.

        When man start selecting bees he always take just a few aspects(
for
polination, for not to much propolis, for high eggs laying, etc) but
nature
has selected them for million os aspects during milions of years, so we
are
just droping down all those years of evolution in a few decades of
careless
artificial selection.

        As result, people are afraid of facing risks in beekeeping due
to
mites, management, and low divulgation of bee culture.

jcf.

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