>>...continuing bans against non-movable comb hives were and are
steering beekeeping development on a different course than it
otherwise would have taken, and, overnight, made beekeeping a much
more expensive (industrial) pursuit.
Although movable frames are great for close colony inspection, and
thus were mandated as the only legal type justified by the need for
official inspections for bee diseases, I wonder if diseasse control
is not worse today... I have yet to see a feral colony with a case
of American foulbrood or chalkbrood.
Waldemar
Long Island, NY
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