Share The Seeds
Gardening Area => Beekeeping => Topic started by: PermieGing on February 02, 2014, 05:31:25 PM
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http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?292878-Why-I-don-t-consider-using-treatments
My dad showed me this.
I had never considered how vital microorganisms are to a healthy hive!
Microorganisms never cease to amaze :)
"There are over 8,000 microbes that have been identified (source USDA and Martha Gilliam’s research) that live with bees. Of these only a handful are pathogens. The rest either fill a niche in the ecology of the hive (and therefore crowd out pathogens) or they have an actual beneficial effect. Recent studies have shown some of the mechanisms by which these microbes protect the bees from the Nosema, AFB, EFB and chalkbrood and that the preventative treatments for these diseases kill off the very thing that is protecting the bees from those diseases."