Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Like everyone who starts beekeeping, on one hand I wanted to "save the bees" but on the other hand I also love honey as a natural sweetener so it was a part of becoming more self sufficient. I never got into beekeeping to make money. My first 2-3 years beekeeping was so horrible, losing every hive every year. I was doing everything everybody said to do on the internet .... and that's when it hit me. One day I woke up and asked myself this important question. The answer seemed possible, so I totally changed what I was doing and how I was doing it. I stopped nurturing, caring for, doing what I felt the bees needed me to do for them. I started letting bees be bees. And then the next 2 years I didn't lose any bee hives. Then I got cancer and to prove my theory, for 3 years I couldn't do anything with the bees while I was under treatment and recovery. But when I was finally able to, I still had all the bees. They survived on their own, 3 entire years and beginning a 4th year without any human intervention what-so-ever. They were thriving. In the 5 years since that time, I have only lost 1 or 2 hives and to be honest, once again, that was from my own mistake doing too much for them, I've never lost a hive from doing "too little". So if you are losing bees, maybe you need to ask yourself this question too.
Final report (can you hear me now?) knowridge.com/2025/06/u-s-bee-apocalypse-scientists-uncover-cause-behind-massive-hive-loss
Like everyone who starts beekeeping, on one hand I wanted to "save the bees" but on the other hand I also love honey as a natural sweetener so it was a part of becoming more self sufficient. I never got into beekeeping to make money. My first 2-3 years beekeeping was so horrible, losing every hive every year. I was doing everything everybody said to do on the internet .... and that's when it hit me. One day I woke up and asked myself this important question. The answer seemed possible, so I totally changed what I was doing and how I was doing it. I stopped nurturing, caring for, doing what I felt the bees needed me to do for them. I started letting bees be bees. And then the next 2 years I didn't lose any bee hives. Then I got cancer and to prove my theory, for 3 years I couldn't do anything with the bees while I was under treatment and recovery. But when I was finally able to, I still had all the bees. They survived on their own, 3 entire years and beginning a 4th year without any human intervention what-so-ever. They were thriving. In the 5 years since that time, I have only lost 1 or 2 hives and to be honest, once again, that was from my own mistake doing too much for them, I've never lost a hive from doing "too little". So if you are losing bees, maybe you need to ask yourself this question too.
Final report (can you hear me now?) knowridge.com/2025/06/u-s-bee-apocalypse-scientists-uncover-cause-behind-massive-hive-loss
