It’s a sting operation
Gotta go bake biscuits...
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Everything does not have to have a deep meaning. Maybe they just want some natural native honey.
All joking aside...
When do the leftist/libs start screaming about the waste of taxpayer dollars for this beehive...the way they screamed about Moocher’s Whitehouse Garden?
I just started the journey into beekeeping. My hive is about two months old and slowly growing.
OK, think on this.....
After twenty two years as a bee keeper I sold all my stuff to a friend who in her late 60’s took up the pursuit. I spoke with her last evening at the DBHS class of 60 Seventy Five Year old Birthday bash. (we’re all 75 this year.
But I digress.....
Someone began to research the modern beekeeping practices that follow that developed years ago by A. I. Root. He developed the modern hive body that includes a brood chamber and supers for honey collection. He developed starter comb, a wax sheet rolled with the hexagonal cell imprint. The bees draw out that precise rolled pattern into the comb used for brood rearing or for storage.
It turns out Root slightly oversized the pattern dimensions.I’m not sure why but my friend told me root wanted to produce larger bees and a bigger cell allowed larger larvae.
Any way, the researcher studied wild comb and established new, smaller wax cell dimensions. A bee keeper can now buy the starter sheets with the smaller imprinted pattern. We are talking very small dimensional change here.
Bottom line, she has no mite problem with the smaller, theoretical natural instinctively cell size. Not only did the colonies cease dying, but the honey production per colony increased dramatically.
So, as beekeepers switch to the smaller wax cell pattern, the mite problem is apparently going to disappear.
Interesting how the hobbyist bee keeper might be making matters WORSE, its that pesky law of unintended consequences.