treatment-free beekeeping – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Sat, 22 Jul 2017 16:21:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 treatment-free beekeeping – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 The Treatment-free Varroa Mite Bomb Conspiracy Theory https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-varroa-mite-bomb-conspiracy-theory/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-varroa-mite-bomb-conspiracy-theory/#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:30:34 +0000 http://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3505 The fact is that beekeepers who treat their bees with chemicals are still losing colonies in a similar ratio to those of treatment-free beekeepers. What I believe is that, over time, raising bees without treatments produces hardier bees. Treating bees with chemicals helps the bees that have weaker “genetics” to continue to propagate and allows […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/top-5-reasons-not-to-treat-your-bees-with-chemicals/feed/ 3 Treatment-Free Beekeeping Explained https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-beekeeping-explained/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-beekeeping-explained/#comments Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:06:46 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3374 In order to explain treatment-free beekeeping in a manner that is productive, it is first necessary to understand that there are many definitions of what exactly “treatment-free” means. In this article, I bring to light various opinions that exist and put forth a definition that attempts to clarify the topic of treatment-free beekeeping for the […]

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