As a beekeeper who is trying to stay as natural as possible with
my hives, I was thrilled to hear Keith supporting Mother Nature.
By low impact beekeeping he emphasized: - No chemicals - A more
natural environment both inside and outside the colony He also
emphasized the importance of us beekeepers understanding the
biology of the honeybee (see my notes from his earlier talk) as
well as the biology of the pests that intrude on the bee and the
biology of the diseases of the honey bee. Keith uses no
chemicals in his hives - no chemical treatments and no drugs. He
discovered that he lost about the same number of colonies each
winter with or without chemicals - so why not leave the bees be?
From the outside the hive natural approach, he put up the slide
below. The tree in which a bee colony could certainly live
stands alone, and thus the bee colony stands alone. We tend to
put our colonies side by side (for the convenience of the
beekeeper) and that is not natural. Keith is trying to locate
his colonies at least