> I would like to learn more on this way of viewing a bee colony.  Can
> anyone add to the reading list?

I don't know about a reading list, but our archives contain articles,
about managing bees in ways that enable and encourage bees in their
homes and to proceed according to their 'wisdom' and 'culture', rather
than attempting to impose puny human logic and controls on them.  We
question whether beekeeping thought in the 20th century was unduly
dominated by the needs of equipment manufacturers through their finacing
of beekeeping publications, and the fact that, as in many things money
is made by selling items and that money finances further such sales.  We
go so far as to question the use of the Langstroth (or any) commercial
hive, and to question the use of foundation.  One such article is
reprinted at http://beesource.com/pov/dick/simple.htm.  There are many
more.

A good beekeeper works with the bees and not against them.

allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com

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