The Story of the Treatment Free Beekeeper
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มี.ค. 2024
- Today we tell the story of the Beekeeper who at one point lived using only treatments but after finding failure year after year switched to a thriving treatment free lifestyle.
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great job, now if i were just 20 years younger
Nice chat again about the treatment free beekeeping. I totally agree.
Buy bees, mite wash, count, treat, count again, re-treat, mite wash again, count, put in beetle traps, Swiffer sheets, feed syrup, put on pollen patties, dry sugar, treat all through winter, then they die (or live, who cares). I don't know where any type of enjoyment fits in there, but nah I'm good. Thanks for the shout out!
Yeah I'm too lazy to keep up with all that. Reminds me of the guy you mentioned last night that brought his Bees inside on cold days!
@@SecureAcresNaturalBees maybe he should carry the bees from flower to flower and back to the hive too. 😁
Tom ? ANOTHER TRUTH - FULL, HONEST - EDUCATIONAL 15 MINUTES, OR SO.
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So happy to hear your experiences. This is the approach i was hoping for. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Excellent video! The best way to help? Plant more flowers and flowering trees in areas of pesticide free zones. 🐝🐝
Planting flowers and crops is great, much easier when you have lots of pollinators. :)
I’m new to beekeeping, will have my first hive set up this year. So by no means am I a beekeeper, but when I talk to other actual beekeepers, I have asked this exact question: how do bees survive in wild with no treatment? Your video is intriguing, but you didn’t actually say what it is that you do differently that allows the bees to remain treatment free and still be successful. Any chance you could expand on this?
Thanks for your comment,
Wild Bees don't always survive. In fact they have around a 50% survival rate. They do however swarm one if not more times providing colonies to the surrounding areas. They do so without treatment because their survival depends on it. If they have the good genetics to keep mites and other pests at bay then they will succeed and reproduce. If they don't the colony will perish and that line will be lost. The true definition of Survival of the Fittest.
Being treatment free is as easy as it sounds. It's doing your other Honey Bee activities while removing the treatment factor. As I said you will lose colonies from time to time, but your colonies that survive will bring good genetics into your gene pool.
If you check out some of our other videos, we teach the practice of catching swarms, which is a great start to healthy genetics in your apiary.
Thanks for stopping by!
Treatments can kill a colony that would have otherwise survived.
The difference is the genetics. Local bees have not been killed off so they are more likely to survive. They have developed resistance and abilities to keep the mites down.
Thank you for the video. I am in an area where honeybees are not found, although there are other types of bees and native pollinators. After trying to catch swarms and looking for any sign of honey bees for the past two years, I have concluded that it will be very unlikely to find/catch any. So this year I have gotten two NUCs from a bee keeper a few hours away. They, like all other bee keepers I have found, treat their bees. I expect that the generics won't be resistant to the things they treat for. I would like your opinion on how I may develop better genetics starting from stock that may not have resistance. Any future swarms will come from my own bees, so I won't be mixing in native populations that have better/developed resistance. How do I/they develop resistance with their own limited genetic pool? Perhaps it will be a localized "natural selection" and the weak will die out while others will survive and those drones will pass on their DNA to new queens that the hive produces? It seems like the best thing would be to get a queen from a beekeeper that doesn't treat and has resistance. But there is no one like that anywhere close to me. Thx.
I would suggest you keep attempting to catch swarms, maybe hang more over a wider area. If it is possible for you to keep bees in a location successfully then it is also likely that bees to live there already.
As for the two nucs you have acquired, the best way to go about changing genetics is keeping the bees naturally, including treatment free, from the moment you take them. Their chances of survival are not going to be high as they come from a high intervention apiary. But there's always a chance they survive and then the new generations they raise (including new queens) will be disease resistant stock.
Keeping Bees the way we teach is a lifestyle, anyone can do it but it takes patience. I'm sure you will find success with your bees one way or another. 🐝🐝🐝
@@SecureAcresNaturalBees thank you for your advice and experience. I will continue to try and catch swarms. I have about 12 acres and have hung swarm traps widely with drawn comb and a few drops of lemongrass oil. In the couple years I have been looking at flowering plants and trees, I have seen mostly yellow head bumble bees and the larger bumblebees as pollinators. I will keep the traps up and will not treat the hives I have. Hopefully, some will manage to survive and pass along good genes. It is good to hear that in either case, there will be loss. I'd rather go the path of natural beekeeping and let a natural resistance develop. Perhaps next year I can look for queens that come from type of apiary.