One of the painful challenges that’s facing small scale beekeepers in our community is Beehive robbing.
Helped out a fellow Beekeeper yesterday working on one of his Hives.
The sad part was, on December 2023, he noticed that 1 of his doubled Hive has only 2 frames inside the parent box, 8 frames gone missing, together with the 10 frames inside the honey super(top box)
All the 18 frames as well as the hive Feeder, got stolen by the robbers.
He was hurt and very confuse, as to what might have happened, he never realized or to even believed that some pro’s can be that desperate, stealing matured honey frames for a living.
Those poor
bees survived, they’ve struggled so much, to build-up their combs inside the bottom box, filled it up with worker brood, pollen, honey and lots of bee bread…. newly built combs partially filled with honey, hangs out inside the Hive Lid/Cover so they can fill up the huge empty space inside the top box.
Oh!! How cruel
humans can be, when it comes to
very inhuman act!!
I do feel for the beesguys and the struggling farmers, who relies on honey marketing
to support their family needs.
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