Deb: My husband and I have 2 hobby hives for honey for our own use. I've tried and tried to find information supporting not medicating them and not feeding them sugar water but all of the beekeepers say there are no bees in Canada that are strong enough anymore and that it must be done.
I told my husband about Juliette Levy and how she says in her old herbal books over the years says that they should NOT be medicated at all and that they should be fed their own honey rather then the sugar water. He argues that it is now 2006 and things have changed. I asked my husband what would happen if we didn't medicate and he said we could jeopardize other beekeepers hives in the area, the wild bees too if ours got infected, plus you would lose all the bees. What is one to do??? I wonder if bowls of CS were placed near the hives would they 'drink' it?? Could it make them stronger to resist mites? Could you soak the hives in silver or spray them down??? Any thoughts? Musing..... Wendy > Problems with tracheal mites as well as other diseases can certainly be > seen as symptoms of a weakened constitution, the same sort of holistic > perspective we apply to human illnesses. In fact some observers of > commercial beekeeping practices predicted as early as the 1920s the demise > of honeybees that has occurred in the last 15 years. All bees, including > wild ones, have most definitely been affected by big Ag. with it's > pesticides and the overall degradation of their environment. Its likely > that the phenomenon of swarming has gradually affected wild bee genetics > as well. By the time mites showed up, the bees were already struggling > and thus less able to develop defenses. Of course, conventional > beekeeping as taught at the agricultural extension services virtually > refuses to recognize environmental sources of harm, much less that any of > the methods they promote might be detrimental. > DByron > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > --
