I have never ever known another bee keeper to clip wings of queens, especially because they only live a few years, swarming is healthy, and clipping is pointless when you manage the hives properly. A seasoned bee keeper will just manage the hives to do artificial splits and the queens will just stay in the new split because it mimics a swarmed hive in a new home. This complaint is like saying i don’t trust doctors because some use motor oil to perform ass and bicep and breast augmentations. Yeah, a few shady assholes do, but not the majority, so why are you judging and condemning an entire group based on a limited few who perform a very rare practice? Because you don’t know what you’re talking about and want to be angry about something on the internet, because it’s easier to do that than actually get out there and talk to people in the industry first hand. Stop getting your news and information from anger engagement sources.
Stop getting your news and information from anger engagement sources.
I literally got it from a blog called “The Apiarist”. It’s a common practice. From the University of Florida: “Queen management practices include monitoring the queen, queen replacement, marking a queen, and clipping the queen’s wings.”
Queen clipping isn’t nearly the only thing wrong with the honey industry, but quit pretending it doesn’t exist just because you don’t personally practice it.
Edit: And to clarify, this is from what amounts to a propaganda piece for the bee industry written by apiculturists, declaring that beekeeping of an invasive species is actually (so conveniently) a necessary practice. They still own up to queen clipping, because why wouldn’t they? It’s commonplace.
I have never ever known another bee keeper to clip wings of queens, especially because they only live a few years, swarming is healthy, and clipping is pointless when you manage the hives properly. A seasoned bee keeper will just manage the hives to do artificial splits and the queens will just stay in the new split because it mimics a swarmed hive in a new home. This complaint is like saying i don’t trust doctors because some use motor oil to perform ass and bicep and breast augmentations. Yeah, a few shady assholes do, but not the majority, so why are you judging and condemning an entire group based on a limited few who perform a very rare practice? Because you don’t know what you’re talking about and want to be angry about something on the internet, because it’s easier to do that than actually get out there and talk to people in the industry first hand. Stop getting your news and information from anger engagement sources.
I made it this far down and appreciate your patience with the other poster and I learned about bees!
Except you didn’t, because they’re lying. Queen clipping is a common practice.
I literally got it from a blog called “The Apiarist”. It’s a common practice. From the University of Florida: “Queen management practices include monitoring the queen, queen replacement, marking a queen, and clipping the queen’s wings.”
Queen clipping isn’t nearly the only thing wrong with the honey industry, but quit pretending it doesn’t exist just because you don’t personally practice it.
Edit: And to clarify, this is from what amounts to a propaganda piece for the bee industry written by apiculturists, declaring that beekeeping of an invasive species is actually (so conveniently) a necessary practice. They still own up to queen clipping, because why wouldn’t they? It’s commonplace.