winter losses – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Sat, 22 Jul 2017 16:05:59 +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 winter losses – 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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