DEMG - Luzia Barclay - The not so sweet side of honey

 Natural beekeeping offers an alternative to the present way of commercial beekeeping. It is a method that respects the life and life cycle of bees instead of making the business of harvesting honey easier and more lucrative for humans. Bees are exposed to a huge range of manmade events that endanger their lives: monoculture, glyphosate, electromagnetic fields, interference within the hive like killing queens and drones, preventing swarming and so on. Observing wild bees which still live in hollow trees in woods will help us gain insight into ways to keep bees the natural way. What can we learn from them? How do they manage to deal with the varroa mite, with foulbrood and other pathogenic infections? What is their secret? Is there even something that we can learn for ourselves?

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