Revisiting the Wild Honeybee with Torben Schiffer
The Poor Prole’s Almanac
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The Evolution of the Bees in Boxes
Beekeepers are looking at a broken and tortured animal, subdued to the personal needs of the beekeeper. It is not nature. And it is not natural what the bees are doing in the boxes because their behavior shifts to a totally different behavior when they are allowed to live in normal conditions or in species appropriate conditions like in a tree cavity that has just 40 liters of volume,. There is a limit to the intake that they can take in because the volume is limited.
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