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Like, did you read it orrrrr?

Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.

1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.

or

2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.

By the way there are no secrets of beekeeping hidden by secret organisations. All information is readily available. Bees make honey until their resources or storage space in the hive run out. They don’t collect just for their estimated winter needs, they collect nectar until it dries up. 

Here is an example:

The bottom one or two boxes are containing the bee colony (brood in various stages, queen, workers, a bit of pollen and honey) all the other boxes are called “honey supers” full of - hold on to your hat! - honey. In our climate roughly one box worth of honey (somwhere between 16-26kg) is being consumed by bees during an average winter. If the winter is extremely harsh, the beekeeper feeds the colony extra.

All the other boxes are full with honey collected because bees don’t let resources go to waste and they don’t ever stop. Plus, the modern beekeeping methods are especially designed for the bees, way better, cleaner, healthier and more protected places for their colonies than cracks in walls or holes in trees. Kept bees chance of survival are way higher than “wild” ones.

Taking away the excess honey does not affect the bees but does make you able to buy organic, healthy, unadulterated food product, most likely supporting local small businesses and your environment. (don’t buy the imported chinese gunk)

Not to mention if you buy and eat local honey, your hayfever will be mild in the pollen allergy season.

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