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great information for new beekeepers!
I found it very confusing when the term "hive" is used exclusively. I don't know if you mean the same setup (with different bees), or the same bees, but a different year. Your continuous battle with mites is (as always) puzzling to me. Beekeeping should be much more enjoyable in my opinion, and less tedious.
Full disclosure: I listened to the beginning, then skipped to the "darwinian" beekeeping part and listened to the end. I continue to roll my eyes every time I hear of Seeley's generalizations on how feral colonies space themselves, their cavity sizes, or what they do. Regarding formic pro, beekeepers are a gullible bunch. Tell them a product does something, and they will defend it to their death, with no way of actually verifying the claim.
Listening now! I've been great. Looking forward to the "down" time.
Still listening, but I was just thinking about how you were quickly "knocking out" the part about cleaning your suit when you mentioned condensing a 15 minute topic down to 30 minutes! Lol!
I'd settle for some good troll comments right about now. 😄
Yes. There are no problems getting sentiment from trolls however... LOL 😁
Getting listeners to comment is like pulling chickens' teeth. I'm not sure if Podbean's comments even work. Hopefully you get this one.
I am the owner of this podcast and if you are having troubles in I'd been....Sorry. My RSS feed is compliant but for some reason in this particular platform it is not behaving. Used to work, now it is misbehaving. I am actively trying to solve why it is not working here but works everywhere else.
That's the whole thing TF people never seem to keep data. Everyone says trust me. If TF people would do might counts and participate in winter survival studies the information would be more valid whether you don't consider those metrics or not. Got to speak the same language to talk about the same thing. Colony losses and how colonies are doing with particular might loads need to be discussed. Everyone experiences losses so I don't know why TF beekeepers seem to never want to talk about that. It's not the only metric but it is a metric. And record keeping showing over winter survival with high mite loads would be a great thing. I agree that I don't want to keep bees like a commercial beekeeper as it's my hobby not putting food on my table. Keeping bees alive via life support all year long isn't sustainable either.
I'm in populated valley of northern CT north of hartford. I'm TF , anyone welcome to take a look. I had to get over the first years loss to weed out genetics, that's the key. Now my survivor rate is equal to treaters so why treat. I'm surprised you've studied TFB for a while and that's the definition you came up with, confused who you got this info from. But responding to your question why more people dont go to it is because when we first start beekeeping we are pushed this method of treating or else your bees die. No one educates on TFB unless you yourself does your own research. It's a huge industry of chemicals , packages, queens. It's a cycle to keep you stuck on. Why do I need to keep data? To prove to people who wont change? Theres data out there from many number of bigger tfb's then me. Doesnt seem to change anyone's mind. I'm TFB, its successful for me, my bees survive, my wax and honey is cleaner, that's all I care about and that im actually aiding apis melifera as a species in my area. Bees die, treaters bees die, tfb bees die, feral bees die. If we keep propping weak genetics we arent helping anything. We arent god. Bees need to be able to adapt on their own.
I enjoy the episodes that include Sharon!
Beekeeper's Corner podcast....although since washing my ipod classic that seems to be a n incorrect name.... a great piece of data for a bee keeper or somone interested in bee keeping. Mr. Inglin shares his successes and challenges in his endeavor to learn. It's from his point of view so you also see him grow and learn this hobby. He doesn't know it all, he doesn't profess to know it all but he'll help you learn and grow as well. The other part of this is he is honest and doesn't hide failures or things that didn't gonas planned. Really a great tool....albeit from on man's perspective. Add your own experiences and its a good tool
Keep up the great work Kevin love your stuff