what do you mean by 'health' ?Is there any recorded difference between the health of city bees and rural bees?
All those.do you mean incidences of notifiable disease?
or varroa loadings?
or nosema?
I live next to a farm in a nice rural setting and you would not believe how many chemicals are sprayed around a farm these days - farming may have only a few workers but it is nothing if not industrial. They even work through teh night with headlights these days.Is there any recorded difference between the health of city bees and rural bees?
Where you live sounds like hell,pleased i don't live in a place like that,or my bee's.I live next to a farm in a nice rural setting and you would not believe how many chemicals are sprayed around a farm these days - farming may have only a few workers but it is nothing if not industrial. They even work through teh night with headlights these days.
Hugh Fearnley wazisface put his rurally produced honey up against some urban(London) honey and the punters preferred the urban honey taste. Of coarse that doesn't mean a lot but does make you think.Less pesticides?
How about much poorer air quailty?
probably harvesting spuds or sugar beet, or possibly ploughing / cultivating. Nothing new about this, they've been doing this since the advent of decent lighting on farm machinery / tractors.I live next to a farm in a nice rural setting and you would not believe how many chemicals are sprayed around a farm these days - farming may have only a few workers but it is nothing if not industrial. They even work through teh night with headlights these days.