I've noticed the opposite with some beekeepers.  There's a mentality that honey bees are primitive insects that can survive without any winter protection, no feeding, no mite treatments.  A thin wooden box in a windswept field, that's no place for a human, nor is it a place for a honey bee.

Even worse.  The honey bees are seen as a ticket to living a 1st world lifestyle for some folks.  How often do I meet a beekeeper who talks as much about money as they do honey bees, in the same sentence, and conversation.  This isn't multi-level marketing, this is ecology.

Sigh.  If anything, we need more anthropomorphism in the beekeeping industry.   More  oversight on animal ethics.

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