As I understand it - I was around 9 or 10 years old at the time - Dad identified a problem and called in the Bee Inspector who confirmed it. Straight-forward stuff.
May your bees read the same books as you do.
I agree about enormous changes within beekeeping. I suspect many issues come from not enough competent beekeepers to pass their skills down and a lack of tolerance or open-minds with in the older beekeepers in general.MickBBKA wrote: ↑04 Dec 2020, 00:35One of the issues I find is we are often taught the 'BBKA way' to keep bees, which is very good, but it does not encourage forward thinking or experimental beekeeping. There are some brilliant old ways of keeping bees we can and should learn from, but in the last 30 years there has been a total change in the environment. Climate change, neonics, farming methods, pests, virus and diseases. Beekeeping is going through a step change and evolution and some of the older experts need to listen a bit more to some of the new thinkers and take the blinkers off. Just say'n
Cheers, Mick.