Daily Forage (infographic highlighting honeybee extinction)

[doodlemaier]

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Infographics are way cooler than actually "reading stuff". I ♥ concise and to the point information (mostly). I notice that the so called experts have left the moveable frame hives off the list of possible causes of honeybee colony decline. Perhaps the honeybee would reach a balance of co-existence with the myriad pathogens that plague them if the very context of their existence was more functional.

The honeybee is a superorganism the exoskeleton of which is the hollow tree, the natural cavity, or the hive. To house a colony in a moveable frame hive is likened to living in a body that's constantly in a state of dissection.

Clandestine beehives outlaw Nestduftwärmebindung in Virginia

[doodlemaier]

Because everything I want to do is illegal.

Beekeepers shall:

1. Provide movable frames with combs or foundation in all hives used by them to contain bees, except for short periods, not to exceed the first spring honey flow, and to cause the bees in such hives to construct brood combs in such frames so that any of the frames may be removed from the hive without injuring other combs in such hive; and

2. Securely and tightly close the entrance of any hive in apiaries not free from disease and make the hive tight so that robber bees cannot enter, leave, or obtain honey from the hives as long as the hives remain in a location accessible by honeybees.

(Code 1950, § 3-497; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-602; 1972, c. 499, § 3.1-610.10; 2008, c. 860.)

Virginia "Ass"embly shall:

blow me!