> Where do we draw the line between animal neglect and "treatment
free" beekeeping?
Thanks for bringing this up Alex. We've discussed this at length, and many
of us agree that allowing a colony to suffer
a fully-preventable slow and ugly death due to varroa/DWV is unethical.
I am also a treatment-free beekeeper, until any of my colonies require
treatment to stay healthy.
That percentage used to be better than 98%, but is slowly decreasing.
Those colonies that don't require treatment are rewarded by my passing
their genes onto the next generation.
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
530 277 4450
ScientificBeekeeping.com
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