How can anyone have “organic” bees? Do they control where the bees get pollen and nectar? Unless you have the hives on a very large property which you control, I don’t think so. The bees could easily go to neighboring properties where non-organic practices are used.
I suppose organic bees build their own comb, and don’t get chemical treatment for mites.
It would be interesting to run an experiment using ready-made comb with smaller cell sizes. However, beekeepers have been using the ready-made comb for years without a bee die-off. Some synergy at work now, maybe - or maybe just coincidence.
Mrs VS
He was talking about the size of the cells in the comb. The organic bee keepers use the size of the cells that are used it it’s natural state to keep the honey bee the size it is supposed to be. The bee keepers who use the larger cells in a comb encourage the “house” bees to feed the larva more which makes a larger honey bee, which dies earlier and because of the size of the cell in the comb mites and bacteria grow easier, because it takes a longer time to close the cell with wax than the smaller cell, therefore killing the larva. When a hive becomes infested with an “unknown” something, the bees will leave.
Honey bees will travel about 5 miles, if they must, to get their nectar. All worker bees (gatherers) will stay in a “field” to gather nectar until it can no longer find any. The “patrol” bees will find a field of clover, or an orchard of blooming cherries and come back and through a “dance” tell the gatherers exactly where and how far the find is. Honey bees are very interesting creatures. The msm is good about telling the horrendous aspect of something without knowing one iota of what they are talking about. They have not taken the time to read about honey bees, only what someone uneducated in the arena of bees have told them. Just my 1 1/2 cents worth. I really like bees, they are interesting.