Natural Beekeeping: Ross Conrad on Bee Health

Chemical treatments are only making the problems of Colony Collapse Disorder and other bee diseases worse. Natural Beekeeping flips the script on traditional approaches by proposing a program of selective breeding and natural hive management.

Ross Conrad brings together the best organic and natural approaches to keeping honeybees healthy and productive. Readers will learn about nontoxic methods of controlling mites, eliminating American foulbrood disease (without the use of antibiotics), breeding strategies, and many other tips and techniques for maintaining healthy hives. Specific concepts and detailed management techniques are covered in a matter-of-fact, easy-to-implement way.

[MegapixieV]

I have a question...doesn't feeding bees honey from other bees cause them to become more likely to steal honey from other hives?

[GodsGreatestGrace]

Very nice work! However, I wonder why Ross Conrad is using beehives with frames. How natural is that? There are also other, even more natural hives. In Horizontal and Vertical Topbar Hives, the bees build their own natural comb. Because there are no frames (that are designed so that the bees can not attach their comb to the sides of the hive) the hive has better (and more natural) thermal properties...