I’ve been watching so many videos lately and I learned so much more from watching a few of yours than 100 of theirs. You explain so much about why and hows, it’s wonderful thank you.
I love this way of learning and was taught like this for most of my early life by my father and grandfather. Sure, it's sounds a tad "rough", but this way skips a lot of BS and hand holding. The most important part is to get you to understand why and how things work so that you can solve anything that comes your way with logic and common sense.
You all probably dont give a shit but does anyone know a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I stupidly forgot the login password. I love any tricks you can offer me!
I'am a new bee keeper, I have listened to many UA-cam videos but I really like yours because the way you answered questions. I will follow up on your video's.
So very informative! What a mine of knowledge here and years of experience we can glean if we carefully listen; listening without preconceptions like he does when the people ask him. His answers can’t be found elsewhere. We’re from the Isle of Man, where MANX bees are some of the best found and strict laws to safeguard the island’s bees, but the knowledge he imparts in this video are borderless and worth their weight in gold, that only years off beekeeping can give. Well done - sincerely.
Man being a teenager on youtube is wild. Finding random videos like these and learning some knowledge for a skill you'll probably never, but being entertained in the process is one of my favorite pass-times. Knowledge is power my friends! (never know when the honey-apocalypse will start, be prepared for anything lol.)
It's not so much honey apocalypse it's going to be food a gedon. Bees are the main producers of 80% of the world's food supplies. Without them we are dead.
I've got a question. I'm requeening my hive and when I put the new queen in some of the bees looked like they were biting the mesh but did not seem to be trying to sting her to the best of my knowledge. I've seen were some show when bees do not except the Queen the bees are biting the mesh and trying to sting her. Do I have anything to worry about?
Hi, I am 12 y/o and just started beekeeping this year 2019. Just this last week I caught 3 swarms and am super excited. This video really helped me learn a lot about beekeeping. My goal this year is to split these hives a few times. So going to go watch the video you just posted on splitting a hive 12 times . Thanks for the lessons. :) Sid
I like watching this guy because he doesn't look like he is going to say things I agree with but he always does for the most part, and that makes me trust the things I disagree with, (enough to consider them in my own ideas). He contradicts himself sometimes but has a ton of knowledge and ideas to impart to people. Thanks Don The Fat Bee Man!!
im on ssi an i love ur improvising technics,,mine are the same,,i made a feeder trough b4 i seen ur vid an hell i bought my first nuc in June,,i got 5 hives now an i been pumpin a 3:1 syrup an pollen sub,,im 2miles south of Lake Erie in Ashtabula we get whiteout snowin off the lake an -75 below windchills,,i have a challenge and Im gonna whoop its tail,,if the ferrals can live down at the river (the lake/river are 150-200ft below land) ,,i should be able to keep'em alive,,,THANX MAN
Oh my goodness!!! I'm watching this at least 20 times! no joke! thank you . please make more of these!! And if someone could capture close ups when you demo. I could learn exactly what I need to do and why.
Don, can you elaborate more on drawbacks (legal I assume?) of a sideliner producing and selling over 2 tons of honey every year? Video cuts off at 5:54, right when you are about to explain it.
Liability is greater for honey than bees. Everyone knows bees have stingers. If you sell a jar of honey to a lady that takes it to a church social and someone gets sick,they can come back on you to cover everyones hospital bills. Every state has a max amount you can legally produce and sell before you become "Comercial" and have to extract in a USDA licensed honey house. Under a certain amount you can extract and pack in your kitchen.
Hi, I’m Tom. Been watching your videos on fogging hives with mineral oil and wintergreen essential oil. Doing this once a week for 3 weeks. Does it get to the varroa in capped cells and open cells to kill the varroa laying the eggs? Can we treat every week during the summer? Does it affect brood rearing and honey production?
Hello Sir: Everyone has told me to ask you, (father Bee)! had bee's for years and never had this, folks have suggested you might be able to answer.... got several awesome nucs this year, hived them, all are doing well, with one exception, one is building odd long swirled wavy comb perpendicular to the frames (even their nuc frames are funky, had lots of burs/&comb on the nuc top)... I scrap, they just re-do it, (frames are max wax rite-cell) (i have even asked the 'seller' which magnetic direction the nuc hole was facing, not that is a thing but it crossed my mind) any ideas how to fix this box? suggestions? advice/ insights much appreciated.... Paula
4:52 so with those little hives down there, can you just animate them (make them into a proper beehive) and then harvest off of those little ones? They won't just all become majority brood and barely any honey?
Dave at Barnyard Bees Taught Don everything he knows. He also said the old ways no longer apply today. Is that true? should we only learn from the younger beekeepers because they understand modern beekeeping? thanks
For a female just getting bees next spring.. would u recommend one deep and two medium for brood or 3 medium for brood??????( im understand ill only have one box initially but im considering the big picture
Im so glad to have found your common sense . I’m in Idaho. I’m told to use two deeps for our winters. I’m a backyard beekeeper. I’ve lost two of my three hives. In your opinion would a single deep be better?
Don I have been watching you for a year now. Thank you so much for your videos, I have learned a lot. I especially like the natural remedies and treatments you use. The practical advice is hard to beat as well. I was wondering, you mention in this video selling honey by the bucket. Do you still do that, and could I purchase some from you?? I have severe allergies, and use honey everyday. We just started our colony this weekend, so, no honey until next spring. Thank you for your videos, and all that you do for nature’s little girls. Michael & Morgan Duncan, novice newby beekeepers.
@@fineshooter not sure why people have the impression this lady was being rude or something. She simply had some experience and took time processing what she heard and adding it to her own knowledge.
Thank you very much! I'm doing research on starting my first hive. You've shifted my thoughts of making honey over to thoughts of making money selling bees!
Thank Christ we have a beekeeper that knows what he is talking about, I have kept bees for 48 years and this guy is definitely on the same page as I am on beekeeping, always listen to us old toughened up old guys people, not these new age young now it all, because they no zilch
Did you know that you was my mentor when i 1st started out beekeeping he hee learn a lot from ya bub! When UA-cam 1st started out! i understand bees, THEY LIKE TO THROW CURE BALLS. I found too> That capped honey is the bees worst enemy There HOARDERS Cheers Man
We only have Killer Bees here in Arizona! They are meaner than hell! Killer Bee Guy here! Did you know that Killer Bee honey is the same as any other honey? It is the nectar source that matters.
If You have a Screen bottom Board with a Plastic tray under the bottom for mite control won't it stop most of the moisture from entering the Hive? Also I live in SW MS and Our weather is Humid Anyway I am New to Beekeeping as I inherited 6 hives from My FIL after he passed. I am Up to 8 Hives at this time and Plan on Making a couple of Splits in a couple weeks.
Where does the lady live that has done no treatment in years?? What type of bees does she have? Needs to do mite count. Oh lost half of her hives (mites)
just fyi can save your life or your family, New bee keepers and surprisingly lots of "master" keepers don't know is that if you are not stung enough, around once a month should be good, you will build up the wrong antibodies and overtime a sting can and will become fatal. This goes for all family, children and wives who do not handle bees and get stung are at serious risk. 1 in 100 people are allergic, but 1 in 10 keepers family are allergic.
Help please! I installed my first 3 nucs into hive about 1 week ago. Since then it has been nothing but pouring rain, what so do when u need to get into hives. It is still raining HARD! and expected not to stop for another 8 days. What shall I do?. Thanks to anyone for Your help.
Osterizer blender with metal parts can stand up to the oils, but I was using a Hamilton beach and had a batch eat the seals out of the blender shaft and run right out the bottom of the motor
Had a queen didn't get out of the cage...the bees didn't eat the candy...didn't know why at first so I released her...that was just before I noticed a huge queen already with the other bees...thats why they didn't release the other queen...just another reason they don't eat the candy....
The information is great, but seriously!! How can ONE woman have SO many questions and say she's been keeping bees for so long? Has she not learned everything until today?? Sorry, after 25 mins, I'm tired of listening to her, her, her!!
There's a hell of a lot of misinformation that go's around beekeeper communities, shes probably checking if what she has learnt prior to this workshop is good practice. If I had paid $500 for the workshop I would be asking just as many questions
Great Information! Anyone could watch these videos and make out well with bees. There are differing opinions and differing way to do things all of which are successful. FBM is great because especially in things like queen rearing he shows ways that can save a ton of money because they were used traditional before commercialization of everything. How to do it before gimmicks so to speak. The only thing i found that I entirely disagree with is his opinion on queen excluders. Given any given queen has maximums of possible eggs laid. Hives have maximum population averages all things being equal. As such the 50% shortened life span he claims equates to half the population in any hive with a queen excluder. I have not seen any proof that his hives or any making this claim have double the population of any hive using a queen excluder. I see many honey producing hives using excluders that are literately boxes of bees. It's not just FBM making this 50% shortened life claim. I have heard it on other videos by other beekeepers. However, in the reality I see hives using excluder with as much population. As much population using an excluder is impossible if that 50% shortened life span is true and quens in those hives aren't magically laying twice as many eggs. The queen can only lay so many eggs, from egg to bee time does not change so if bees are living half as long then population #'s differences has to be clearly notable and noticeable. I am just not seeing that in either videos or personal experience. Try it! Take two great hives. Put an excluder on one and none on the other, monitor the brood rearing on both, see if your population drops by half. If not and the queen with the excluder didn't have twice as much brood to make up for the difference then the 50% number is entirely false and should not be used. False statements to sell manufacturers gimmicks are no better than false or exaggerated statements to sell an agenda or opinion. One benefits profit and the other benefits position. Both result in sales to their target markets by selling lies to the ignorant. Both use trust to feed off of ignorance. This is what I've found watching hundreds and hundreds of videos on every type of beekeeping. Regardless of how you raise your bees. If you put your bees well being above your personal agenda and opinion you will have awesome and healthy hives for the most part. If you put yourself first your bees will suffer and possibly die. It's the same for any livestock or pet. It's that simple and it's backed up by the fact that any wild species of any type in captivity with a firm knowledge of their needs and where those need are met lives longer and or produces better. That includes humans and plant life.
I’ve been watching so many videos lately and I learned so much more from watching a few of yours than 100 of theirs. You explain so much about why and hows, it’s wonderful thank you.
Thank you! I’m amazed how much information you shared ... the hour flew by.
thanks for watching
I love this way of learning and was taught like this for most of my early life by my father and grandfather. Sure, it's sounds a tad "rough", but this way skips a lot of BS and hand holding.
The most important part is to get you to understand why and how things work so that you can solve anything that comes your way with logic and common sense.
You all probably dont give a shit but does anyone know a way to get back into an Instagram account??
I stupidly forgot the login password. I love any tricks you can offer me!
I'am a new bee keeper, I have listened to many UA-cam videos but I really like yours because the way you answered questions. I will follow up on your video's.
Don, your video is exceptional! THANKYOU!!!
I really enjoy watching your videos. I learn so much. I saved this one for later watching.
This class is fantastic... love watching you Don!
Glad I came across his vids..I'm a newbie and learned so much from this guy...Really knows his stuff..
Careful with his videos. Find someone else. He treats the hives with a lot of illegal methods.
So very informative! What a mine of knowledge here and years of experience we can glean if we carefully listen; listening without preconceptions like he does when the people ask him. His answers can’t be found elsewhere. We’re from the Isle of Man, where MANX bees are some of the best found and strict laws to safeguard the island’s bees, but the knowledge he imparts in this video are borderless and worth their weight in gold, that only years off beekeeping can give. Well done - sincerely.
Hello there Don. Excellent presentation. Full of useful information. Thank u for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your videos with us, I learn so much. I can't wait to get a hive box and get started myself.
From one Don to another, great video!! Lots of valuable information
Thank you Don. I love you and you teaching!!!!
Great video learned a lot. thanks First time watcher.
You one smart guy when it comes to bee's my excluders are coming off tomorrow. I never thought of it that way
Man being a teenager on youtube is wild. Finding random videos like these and learning some knowledge for a skill you'll probably never, but being entertained in the process is one of my favorite pass-times. Knowledge is power my friends!
(never know when the honey-apocalypse will start, be prepared for anything lol.)
Welcome to the hive mind 🐝
It's not so much honey apocalypse it's going to be food a gedon. Bees are the main producers of 80% of the world's food supplies. Without them we are dead.
Don Ithink this is your best video Well done.
The very best so far on Bees! Very Intelligent! Watch This Video!
Great video! Thanks for sharing!!😊🐝
I've got a question. I'm requeening my hive and when I put the new queen in some of the bees looked like they were biting the mesh but did not seem to be trying to sting her to the best of my knowledge. I've seen were some show when bees do not except the Queen the bees are biting the mesh and trying to sting her. Do I have anything to worry about?
Hi, I am 12 y/o and just started beekeeping this year 2019. Just this last week I caught 3 swarms and am super excited. This video really helped me learn a lot about beekeeping. My goal this year is to split these hives a few times. So going to go watch the video you just posted on splitting a hive 12 times . Thanks for the lessons. :) Sid
so much more to know before starting a colony......
I like watching this guy because he doesn't look like he is going to say things I agree with but he always does for the most part, and that makes me trust the things I disagree with, (enough to consider them in my own ideas). He contradicts himself sometimes but has a ton of knowledge and ideas to impart to people. Thanks Don The Fat Bee Man!!
im on ssi an i love ur improvising technics,,mine are the same,,i made a feeder trough b4 i seen ur vid an hell i bought my first nuc in June,,i got 5 hives now an i been pumpin a 3:1 syrup an pollen sub,,im 2miles south of Lake Erie in Ashtabula we get whiteout snowin off the lake an -75 below windchills,,i have a challenge and Im gonna whoop its tail,,if the ferrals can live down at the river (the lake/river are 150-200ft below land) ,,i should be able to keep'em alive,,,THANX MAN
Hello and thank you,, from Amman-Jordan..
Oh my goodness!!! I'm watching this at least 20 times! no joke! thank you . please make more of these!! And if someone could capture close ups when you demo. I could learn exactly what I need to do and why.
Awesome. Thank You
Don, can you elaborate more on drawbacks (legal I assume?) of a sideliner producing and selling over 2 tons of honey every year? Video cuts off at 5:54, right when you are about to explain it.
hypsin b
Liability is greater for honey than bees. Everyone knows bees have stingers. If you sell a jar of honey to a lady that takes it to a church social and someone gets sick,they can come back on you to cover everyones hospital bills. Every state has a max amount you can legally produce and sell before you become "Comercial" and have to extract in a USDA licensed honey house. Under a certain amount you can extract and pack in your kitchen.
Don this is your all time best video so far. You seem to be improving with age.
I use the screened bottom board because I live in a very humid climate in Northwest Florida. I used a solid and had that hive die out.
I live in Daytona, I also use a screen bottom board. Have seen a lot of improvement in new comb building and brood count.
Has anyone other than me, noticed all the song birds singing in the Beekeeper videos? Love the sounds of nature, especially song birds.
yea there are birds outside
He’s good he knows what he talking about. He honest.
Hi, I’m Tom. Been watching your videos on fogging hives with mineral oil and wintergreen essential oil. Doing this once a week for 3 weeks. Does it get to the varroa in capped cells and open cells to kill the varroa laying the eggs? Can we treat every week during the summer? Does it affect brood rearing and honey production?
Hello Sir:
Everyone has told me to ask you, (father Bee)!
had bee's for years and never had this, folks have suggested you might be able to answer....
got several awesome nucs this year, hived them, all are doing well, with one exception, one is building odd long swirled wavy comb perpendicular to the frames (even their nuc frames are funky, had lots of burs/&comb on the nuc top)... I scrap, they just re-do it, (frames are max wax rite-cell) (i have even asked the 'seller' which magnetic direction the nuc hole was facing, not that is a thing but it crossed my mind)
any ideas how to fix this box? suggestions? advice/ insights much appreciated....
Paula
Good stuff Don. That's fun to watch. Thanks
Where can I get a feeder top like yours that will fit a 10 frame hive? I have not seen them before.
you can get the plans on my web page Dixie Bee Supply.com just make front 16 and 1/4 inches every thing else is same
4:52 so with those little hives down there, can you just animate them (make them into a proper beehive) and then harvest off of those little ones? They won't just all become majority brood and barely any honey?
A 5 frame is a nuc. An 8 frame is for brood and honey. The reason they are smaller is to lighten the load. You just shaved off 15-20 pounds.
Dave at Barnyard Bees Taught Don everything he knows. He also said the old ways no longer apply today. Is that true? should we only learn from the younger beekeepers because they understand modern beekeeping? thanks
For a female just getting bees next spring.. would u recommend one deep and two medium for brood or 3 medium for brood??????( im understand ill only have one box initially but im considering the big picture
Don how often should u check inside a beehive
by far the best educational video i have ever watched thanks Don!
Im so glad to have found your common sense . I’m in Idaho. I’m told to use two deeps for our winters. I’m a backyard beekeeper. I’ve lost two of my three hives. In your opinion would a single deep be better?
How do I clean the hive from Nosema??
Don I have been watching you for a year now. Thank you so much for your videos, I have learned a lot. I especially like the natural remedies and treatments you use. The practical advice is hard to beat as well. I was wondering, you mention in this video selling honey by the bucket. Do you still do that, and could I purchase some from you??
I have severe allergies, and use honey everyday. We just started our colony this weekend, so, no honey until next spring. Thank you for your videos, and all that you do for nature’s little girls.
Michael & Morgan Duncan, novice newby beekeepers.
What are all the essential oils you use and the amounts per quarts?
Thank you Don.
Don't mean any harm but the lady didn't seem to be listening to you but instead was trying to re-educate you !! You have great patience!!
I learn from everyone I enjoy teaching
Yes sir you are an excellent teacher. Just another reason for your success...I want to thank you for your teaching and videos.
thanks
@@fineshooter not sure why people have the impression this lady was being rude or something. She simply had some experience and took time processing what she heard and adding it to her own knowledge.
The metal excluders do not harm bees wings as much as the plastic sharp ones apparently, as they are round wire at the spacing
Thanks. Wonder if i could come and work with you to learn about bee keeping. Semi retired need something to do
Awesome video, thanks for all the helpful videos
GREAT INFO!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you very much! I'm doing research on starting my first hive. You've shifted my thoughts of making honey over to thoughts of making money selling bees!
Thank Christ we have a beekeeper that knows what he is talking about, I have kept bees for 48 years and this guy is definitely on the same page as I am on beekeeping, always listen to us old toughened up old guys people, not these new age young now it all, because they no zilch
I try to teach common sense beekeeping
How does soaker hose not clog up with sugar?
mix it well before
Splitting hives, can you do a detailed video on the best way to split hives. Of course when it is time for them to be split. Thanks in advance.
To understand the bee you must become the bee.
Did you know that you was my mentor when i 1st started out beekeeping he hee learn a lot from ya bub! When UA-cam 1st started out! i understand bees, THEY LIKE TO THROW CURE BALLS. I found too> That capped honey is the bees worst enemy There HOARDERS Cheers Man
We only have Killer Bees here in Arizona! They are meaner than hell! Killer Bee Guy here! Did you know that Killer Bee honey is the same as any other honey? It is the nectar source that matters.
Hi Don, I want to start keeping Bees, can you tell me every thing I need to start.
Watch the videos, that's what they are there for.
Watch as many of dons videos as you can. Nothing can beat a mentor on video.
Did this guy really just ask this? Seriously.
Nice job It s been a while you done one like that Happy to see you back in your yard
Another great video Don!
I want to take this guys class.
If You have a Screen bottom Board with a Plastic tray under the bottom for mite control won't it stop most of the moisture from entering the Hive? Also I live in SW MS and Our weather is Humid Anyway I am New to Beekeeping as I inherited 6 hives from My FIL after he passed.
I am Up to 8 Hives at this time and Plan on Making a couple of Splits in a couple weeks.
As always great vid Don.
Where does the lady live that has done no treatment in years?? What type of bees does she have? Needs to do mite count. Oh lost half of her hives (mites)
Love learning from you
just fyi can save your life or your family, New bee keepers and surprisingly lots of "master" keepers don't know is that if you are not stung enough, around once a month should be good, you will build up the wrong antibodies and overtime a sting can and will become fatal. This goes for all family, children and wives who do not handle bees and get stung are at serious risk. 1 in 100 people are allergic, but 1 in 10 keepers family are allergic.
I use the lemon grass and it works
So if the queen goes into my supper and stars laying I need to put another box on it
haha I love your youtube name
Help please! I installed my first 3 nucs into hive about 1 week ago. Since then it has been nothing but pouring rain, what so do when u need to get into hives. It is still raining HARD! and expected not to stop for another 8 days. What shall I do?. Thanks to anyone for Your help.
I dont have a mite problem, also, I lost half my hives last year.
Lady in blue
well that was too short!! lol... enjoyed every minute!!
Subscribed
no.1 WIT 5 stars dis vid. give me more... I'm hungrrryy
Super video
Esential Oils must to be Food grade.
What state are you in?
Can I get an essential oil / sugar syrup recipe? I've been searching for a good recipe for over a year...can't find a darn thing!
We have some of the recipes posted in our Facebook group under Files
Osterizer blender with metal parts can stand up to the oils, but I was using a Hamilton beach and had a batch eat the seals out of the blender shaft and run right out the bottom of the motor
I love the potato vs patato among bee keepers but he's right what works for some dosen't for others. 👍
Very good lessons thank you. maybe do a short video on the oil recipe for people with 10 hives and under. how much and what kind of oil please
Joe May has an excellent UA-cam video for a few hives receipe
thanks Tommy I'll be checking that out
Лайк, интересно.
Thank you Don!
Had a queen didn't get out of the cage...the bees didn't eat the candy...didn't know why at first so I released her...that was just before I noticed a huge queen already with the other bees...thats why they didn't release the other queen...just another reason they don't eat the candy....
Only thing I can say is THANK YOU!! And God bless
Is this guy this arrogant all the time? I've watched 3 or 4 of his videos, and I cant believe anyone would listen to him.
Hi don, where's your Fat Bee Man supersuit?
I never owned a bee suit
Don my bee's are carrying out unborn baby bee's is that something to worry about
I would do a mite check quickly!
👍👍👍✋ i sub
Can I use the starter strip and make honey . I want honey . I feel all his videos are about making queens
Oh please don't pour the honey out 😯. You have organic honey
Peasetreefarm
See vegamaticnber one killer of bees
the natural way of a split is a swarm, that is one, if not the, most effective way of treating against varoa without stressing the bees
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This video is about three times longer than it needed to be thanks to the woman in the blue...
She asked and he answered a lot of good questions for the beginner and even intermediate beekeeper. What is wrong with that??
Don my bees got robed of there honey what do I need to do for winter
Sounds like typical African American killer bees that robbed them
Order spring packages
good stuff, sir!
thanks
The information is great, but seriously!! How can ONE woman have SO many questions and say she's been keeping bees for so long? Has she not learned everything until today?? Sorry, after 25 mins, I'm tired of listening to her, her, her!!
you would be surprised that how many people don't really know what its all about
Charlotte Richardson she asking because she has been with bees hand in hand. With that she knows what to ask.
There's a hell of a lot of misinformation that go's around beekeeper communities, shes probably checking if what she has learnt prior to this workshop is good practice.
If I had paid $500 for the workshop I would be asking just as many questions
she only paid for a 1 day in my bee yard
It was pretty annoying but tbh I would probably make a fool of myself if I was out there too
Great Information! Anyone could watch these videos and make out well with bees. There are differing opinions and differing way to do things all of which are successful. FBM is great because especially in things like queen rearing he shows ways that can save a ton of money because they were used traditional before commercialization of everything. How to do it before gimmicks so to speak. The only thing i found that I entirely disagree with is his opinion on queen excluders. Given any given queen has maximums of possible eggs laid. Hives have maximum population averages all things being equal. As such the 50% shortened life span he claims equates to half the population in any hive with a queen excluder. I have not seen any proof that his hives or any making this claim have double the population of any hive using a queen excluder. I see many honey producing hives using excluders that are literately boxes of bees. It's not just FBM making this 50% shortened life claim. I have heard it on other videos by other beekeepers. However, in the reality I see hives using excluder with as much population. As much population using an excluder is impossible if that 50% shortened life span is true and quens in those hives aren't magically laying twice as many eggs. The queen can only lay so many eggs, from egg to bee time does not change so if bees are living half as long then population #'s differences has to be clearly notable and noticeable. I am just not seeing that in either videos or personal experience. Try it! Take two great hives. Put an excluder on one and none on the other, monitor the brood rearing on both, see if your population drops by half. If not and the queen with the excluder didn't have twice as much brood to make up for the difference then the 50% number is entirely false and should not be used.
False statements to sell manufacturers gimmicks are no better than false or exaggerated statements to sell an agenda or opinion. One benefits profit and the other benefits position. Both result in sales to their target markets by selling lies to the ignorant. Both use trust to feed off of ignorance.
This is what I've found watching hundreds and hundreds of videos on every type of beekeeping. Regardless of how you raise your bees. If you put your bees well being above your personal agenda and opinion you will have awesome and healthy hives for the most part. If you put yourself first your bees will suffer and possibly die. It's the same for any livestock or pet. It's that simple and it's backed up by the fact that any wild species of any type in captivity with a firm knowledge of their needs and where those need are met lives longer and or produces better. That includes humans and plant life.