peggy  how was the winter luring swarms???? hummm  as I bhave to maintain swarm control ..well this works as good as anything... try cleaning out the dead...
Peggy  am still out in cali ..making splits and nukes waiting to go to wash to pollinate apples....some com keepers came up with a new concotion all nat...
I used to live in DC, and they should have an excellent spring honey crop. The fall crop might not be as good due to the lack of wildflowers in bee range. Pete...
Hello, I am a fellow beekeeper as well as a college student. I am studying Ethics right now and my teacher said I can write about some aspect of beekeeping. I ...
I am not sure what the use or non-use of antibiotics, and treatments in beekeeping would have to do with ethical behavior unless it had to do with the...
Yes it is not clear in what way ethics come into this, but can think of the following possibilities: -making a decision not to treat an infected hive might...
Hey guys.. c'mon...! We ALL have a bad hair days, now and then. We ALL misunderstand, now and then. I believe she misunderstood *my* comment. I made nice about...
Royal Jelly Protein Inhibits Growth of American Foulbrood Bacteria Towards Functional Proteomics of Minority Component of Honeybee Royal Jelly: The Effect of...
Keeping bees is a lot like keeping a cat. Both will come and go as they please and "tolerate" your presence as long as it suits their needs. You can consider...
... Hmmm. I disagree. Quite a good subject for a college-level paper for a course in ethics, and pretty easy to outline using the internet. If I was...
it is spring  how many keepers have had hi hopes for there overwintered hives....only to open them up and see the dissapointment of all the dead bees between...
if you want to be totally ethical to the species, round them all up and return them to the old world. they were introduced to north/south america by man. ... ...
one more thng about ethics. you decide them for yourself. i am not a beek yet. nother week or so. but i decided last year while i was doing research: 1. i want...
Now that we have heard what people think is 'ethical' in beekeeping let's hear what would be 'unethical'. Using the ideas below as a starting point, would it...
IMHO it would be unethical to keep bees: to harvest more honey or wax than the colony can stand to attempt to maximise one's own profit at the expense of the...
I think it is a lot like cats and dogs. Our ancestors domesticated them, was that wrong? I don't know. So, should we now just release them to fend for...
the choices you have made are neither right nor wrong, but they represent your ethics. if you are true to them, your behavior is ethical. other people's ethics...
In academia today there is a movement to redefine ethics. In my day ethical behavior was viewed in the context of the situation. Ethics was a code of ...
It would be helpful if everyone who replies would simply highlight the salient point and then hit "reply all." That way only that one idea (see below) is...
Bee Law Request Please send me links to your local city, county, & state, laws, regs, etc. I have found, finding the laws, extremely difficult, so to advise ...
I'm not sure this is an ethics issue, rather than a morality issue or such. I recently read of a supplier who only had a few hands. He took 3 days to pkg a...
Peggy, I think you got it half right and half wrong. In my opinion -- cats domesticated mankind -- not the other way around. Who gets to lie around and sleep...
PETA has their own code of ethical behavior. signing on with PETA means that you will abide by their standards, but it is a choice that each individual makes...
I am new to the group and have enjoyed everyones comments on everything from White House Bees to getting bees out of logs and beekeeping ethics. I am an...
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