Allen Dick writes:
5. whether all the bees in the world were "forced", to use
one writer's words, to become permanently larger in a
matter of a few decades.  (We can all see how bees can be
forced smaller by being crammed into small cells, but not
all of us can understand how they can be forced bigger and
in such a massive and permanent scale)

Reply:
Maybe saying the whole world isn't quite right for that
would assume real remote places and that wouln't be correct
there.

But worldwide about 135 countries I would say are hurting,
due to modernization to bring them out of either
old-fashioned beekeeping with antique methods, or to get
newer equipment into place. Here with the Paris convention
of beekeepers in 1933/34 much when forward and since
embossing mills were coming on the market in mass then, and
beekeepers wanted to modernize, the EU countries, UK, and
USA with manufacturers all went with the bigger is better
for hybridization of plants for crops/food was coming into
being also for mass production and bigger and better bees
were needed. So control the milling with a few and get them
to go successively bigger and you have upsizing. Here the
Apimondia Jubilee volume of years back would be good
reading to see who was all involved.

Regards,

Dee A. Lusby





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