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> >I feel that treatment free bee keepers allow their bees to suffer by not
> providing safe and simple husbandry measures to control mite populations.
> If they have no empathy for the animals they should not keep them.
My sentiment exactly! We sell a thousand nucs each spring--thriving, with
young, beautiful queens. We avoid selling them to anyone who says that
they plan to go treatment free--it would be like sending one of our
daughters off to a slow, gruesome, and needless death.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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