In a message dated 13/10/2007 12:46:04 GMT Standard Time,  
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A  very harmonious relationship with no differing  interests..




The bee might prefer not to be too close to neighbours who will be  
constantly probing her hive's defences in the hope of a free meal: the beekeeper  for 
economy, especially of travelling time, likes to keep lots of hives in one  
place. 
The bee might like to build up the colony with the season: the beekeeper  
likes artificially to build up the colony before the seasonal forage is  
available.  
The bee would prefer to have a mixture of forage within easy range without  
too much competition: the beekeeper keeps lots of hives together so they have 
to  compete or to extend their foraging area. 
The bee likes to have some natural forage available at all times: the  
migratory beekeeper ensures they alternate between glut and desert. 
The bee prefers to have a population appropriate to her race, the latitude,  
altitude, average local forage, climate and season: the  beekeeper seeks to 
maximise population so he can get his asking price for  pollination fees or 
maximum honey from a flow.  
The bee insists on leaving the hive to ease her bowels: the beekeeper  shuts 
up the hive and subjects it to a prolonged, stressful journey and  then has to 
treat against nosema.
The bee uses propolis which keeps many diseases at a low level: the  
beekeeper selects against propolis collection or keeps his bees where there is  none 
to be had and then feeds antibiotics.
The bee prefers to maintain or reproduce the colony by supersedure or  
swarming: the beekeeper frowns on both these activities and introduces a strange  
queen to take over the egg laying role.
The bee prefers to winter on her own stores: the beekeeper, aware of the  
difference in price between honey and sugar takes the former and feeds the  
latter.
The bee can cope with pests and diseases that have been her enemies  from the 
time of her longfathers of yore: the beekeeper keeps challenging her  with 
unfamiliar pests from abroad.
The bee might keep ahead of the varroa mite by frequent swarming or  
absconding: the beekeeper tries diligently to thwart her.
The bee prefers to rear her sisters in fresh comb: the beekeeper ensures  
that only heavily used comb is available for the queen to lay in.
 
Need I go on?
 
Chris
 



   

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