Collecting a Wild Honeybee Swarm Not Treated with Medication or Insecticides to Create a Stronger Gene Pool
Beekeeper, Matt Reed, surveying honeybee nest
by Cooking Up a Story
In this video, beekeeper Matt Reed demonstrates how to collect a wild honeybee swarm. Reed does not treat his bees with any chemicals, but relies instead upon natural selection (those bees that survive without any treatments) to confer their genetic resistance to disease and parasite infection. By maintaining […]