“Hive looks like someone put it together like a wasp… 0/5 stars”
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ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks agoActually if bees don’t like the hive you put them in, they absolutely will leave.
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Spacenut@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This isn’t true for the vast majority of commercial honey unfortunately. If you’re buying it from the supermarket, or any producer that operates at even medium scale, they’ll clip the wings of the queen so that the hive is unable to leave even if they want to.
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
And they they lose the hive anyway due to CCD or some nutrient deficiency that results from only consuming almost nectar.