From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 07:15:14 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: wood contaminates for wax (re:line 66 - wax)

Hi to all on Biological Beekeeping

Barry wrote:

> I can't imagine that dried wood glue could
> ever contaminate honey to any level that could be measured. Same
> thing with dried paint. Especially since the bees will seal it with propolis anyway.

> We ought to focus on those things that do have a significant impact on the
> quality of the honey and bees and not create a bigger issue than is needed.

Replly:

Yes, even in Europe I think the issue on hivebodies/supers was not included
in their organics.The focus is the 'products of the hive and their purity'.
The issue only became a problem to having an organics problem because of
'food and feed' contaminates in the diet.

The main causes here being the additives and therefore that is where the
focus should be.

Until beekeepers were taught artificial dumping and treating of additives,
as a routine supposed treatment for ailments, rather than field manipulation
for solving, for fast and cheap rather than do the actual work to correct
the problem to physically cure, there really were no problems.

We have just created our ills because of not wanting to do the work in the
beginning., or thinking we could do it a better way then traditionallly for
centuries. Now who will teach how to go back and relearn to do it right.

Beekeeping really isn't that hard! It takes a lot of wrongful work to get
bees sick. Constant artificial feed, artificial breeding, artificial
medication, artificial size. What is real anymore? All this artificial is
bad on producting quality food and feed when the bees are out-of-tune with
natural flora, which is what we want them to be able to collect to eat for
ourselves. Clean bees gather clean food.

Dee