Monthly Archives: October 2016

It’s just deer corn, treated seed won’t hurt anybody right?

While it would be easy to draw that conclusion from these inaccurate assumptions: people aren’t going to eat it it doesn’t even have flowers, bees won’t get hurt right? it’s not like we’re spraying anything   Here’s the problem: If those deer get shot and eaten, humans will likely receive low-dose pesticide exposure, and research… Read more »

Crushing bees weakens colony strength

Another article worth reading from Randy Oliver’s scientificbeekeeping.com: http://scientificbeekeeping.com/does-the-crushing-of-bees-affect-colony-health/   He poses the question, found in the URL above, “Since I couldn’t find a single controlled study in which the effects of the crushing of bees in the hive was clearly determined, I decided to use some of your donations to run a trial…”  and… Read more »