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Russian bees:
Health of bees
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 The popularity of Russian bees is decreasing due to cross breeding and improper ways of working with them. Only a few beekeepers continue to work with Russian bees The main reason is an opinion that they are beginning to produce less honey that other strains and hybrid bees. Yes, the Russian bee’s productivity has decreased after frameless beekeeping spread. Nobody has researched the reason why. Instead, beekeepers and scientists are trying to find fault with Russian bees as an old, dying breed that needs to be replaced. This results in active breeding of Russian bees with others strains. But despite the hope for new, strong hybrid bees, apiaries with cross-bred bees are making less honey. Their bees are more sensitive to diseases, and exhibit more aggressiveness and unregulated swarming. Some wise beekeepers continue to like Russian bees and have strong bee colonies and a lot of honey. The base of their success is in understanding the nature of bees as God’s creatures and the unique nature of the Russian bee itself. They try to keep the Russian bee strain as pure as possible and remove from their apiaries all other strains and cross-bred bees. This helps nature to fight the negative effects of replacing the local bees. Wise beekeepers try to construct hives for Russian bees as convenient and natural as possible. They try to learn how to deal with bees from bees themselves. They do not disturb bees unless absolutely necessary. Beekeepers who complain about Russian bees have usually two, three or even more different kinds of bees at their apiaries. Even when they still have pure Russian bees colonies, they work with them the same way as with others bees, without understanding the uniqueness and particulars of a Russian bee. Russian bees at such apiaries are gradually replaced by other bees, or become sick and die. Wide-spread cross-breeding practices and our forceful intervention in Russian bees lives have dramatically decrease the quality and quantity of this unique bees. We can still reconstruct Russian bees as a strain, but this demands a big effort to clear areas where Russian bees live together with other bees. Beekeepers also need to be educated in order to understand the nature of the Russian bee and how to work with it. |
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