is like a super organism. It’s one organization.
Within that, they all do stuff together. They make
decisions to work together.”
Snellen agreed, noting that beekeepers have a
collective goal of stopping the spread of pests and
diseases that are detrimental to all bees.
“Maybe organic is going to be the future of
beekeeping, and you’ll have these different
breeding techniques and going treatment-
free. Now, to me, there’s a difference between
treatment-free and splitting a hive or re-hiving a
queen. Things like that. To me that’s a treatment.
But we’ve got to keep the focus on how the bees
are surviving, not just that they’re dying.”
Image: Daniel Prudek