Sure is hard to argue your idea of weakening the honeybee. Today
it is VERY hard to get antibiotics from doctors, it is usually
easier to get pain-killers because of how antibiotics are
weakening our resistance to nearly every virual attack known to
exist. We literally destroy our defensive system to the point
that even the strongest antibiotic is useless to many people. I
agree it is natural for superior colonies to survive threat
without medication in order to continue to be a strong spieces
on the planet. but I have one problem with the theory: not all
beekeepers medicate, many have never nor would ever and yet they
are suffering loss. I can't imagine blaming everything on
chemical treatments passed from bee to bee from casual
pollination of plants or trees. I'm sure we are weakening our
hives (as a general issue) if we expose them to chemicals
unnaturally found in nature - and surely a saturation point can
occur - we do live in a society where MORE is better and the
idea of minimally medicating bees proba