- “...Varroa destructor will not be stopped by any active human manipulation. This is a wise arachnid. It inbreeds every generation. A generation is short- each bee brood cycle. Varroa breeds, mutates, and adapts much faster than the bees. High breeding rates give them a genetic answer to any treatment or manipulation (as do the bees themselves). Even formic acid, a very effective "organic" treatment, IS NOT WORKING by itself in many southern apiaires. Not all the mites are killed. The survivors exhibit behaviors they pass to their offspring. So sugar dusting and screen bottom boards promote varroa mites that hang on better. Drone brood removal favors feisty varroa that successfully reproduce on worker brood. However, a parasite that repeatedly kills its host will die with its host. Leaving a group of hives "alone" will allow the development of less...
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- Spikenard Farm, Floyd, VA : http://www.spikenardfarm.org/; "Our mission is to promote sustainable and biodynamic beekeeping through education, experience-based research and a honeybee sanctuary and to help restore the health and vitality of the honeybee worldwide."
- The Melissa Garden, Healdsburg, CA : http://www.themelissagarden.com/; "a honeybee, native pollinator and habitat garden sanctuary"
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- Trusting Mother Nature's ways of balanced coexistance
- Natural selection, natural comb, fixed comb, small cell beekeeping
- Avoid Packages; Use Swarms + Nucs
- Clean, natural comb, No smoke, No toxic chemicals, Preservation -vs- production (http://rodaleinstitute.org/our-work/hone...)
- Retention of Nest Scent and Warmth
- Nadiring opposed to Suppering
- Let them swarm
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- "The Buzz about Bees", by Prof. Dr. Juergen Tautz
- "Bees", by Rudolf Steiner
- "Wisdom of the bees", by Erik Berrevoets
- "The Buzz about Bees", by Prof. Dr. Juergen Tautz
- "Toward saving the Honey Bee", by Guenther Hauk
- "Bees and Honey: From Flower to Jar", by Michael Weiler
- "The Sacred Bee" by Hilda M. Ransome
- "The Shamanic Way of the Bees", by Simon Buxton
- "The Lost Language of Plants", by Stephen Harrod Buhner
- "Fruitless Fall", by Rowan Jacobsen
- "Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture", by Ross Conrad
- "The Queen Must Die - And Other Affairs of Bees and Men", by William Longgood
- "The Beekeeper's Handbook", by Diana Samm...
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- "The One-Straw Revolution", by Masanobu Fukuoka
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