Disadvantages of Beekeeping

[BoutBees]

Can anyone tell me the DISADVANTAGES of beekeeping, I am trying to formulate an answer for a bee exam.

Any input gratefully received

BoutBees

 

[SkiBee]

You become a beekeeping bore. People must dread asking me how the bees are now. "ooh I'm so glad you asked..... bla bla bla ......and then I spotted the queen....bla bla bla..... and the swarm was 30ft up a tree...... bla bla bla."

Skibee

 

[Milfoil]

No summer holidays . . . ?

 

[beeatshellards]

welcome bout bees eerm... cant think of any apart from the more you learn the more you seem to want to know

 

[Tom Bick]

Never enough time

 

[VEG]

never enough time then all the time as its winter.

 

[Winker]

Getting stung in the neck

 

[Black Comb]

1. No holidays April - July

2. My wife says she's a bee widow (I think she quite likes this though)

 

[simon kerr]

1. Summer breaks.
2. Initial financial outlay.
3. worry!
4. Sometimes confusion with different techniques / ideas.
5. The unpredictable British climate
6. Some incompatible farming practices.
7. Reduced forage with the loss of habitats, herbicides.
8. Constant threat from disease - varroa etc
9. Lack of funding into research - CCD etc.

 

[For want of a better word]

Can anyone tell me the DISADVANTAGES of beekeeping, I am trying to formulate an answer for a bee exam.

Any input gratefully received

BoutBees

Having to undertake booring bee exams?​

 

[adrian wilford]

the bee widows, just like golf ones i suppose, allergic reactions to propolis/venum/bad backs/sticky kitchen floors/fuel to get to out apiaries/bee poo in the car when you get bees in the car/propolis in places. need any more?

 

[viridens]

Constantly being outwitted by colonies of insects, and the uncertainly of never being sure that you have followed the best course of action.

 

[dale popham]

my girls keep reading a diffrent book than me

 

[Quest for the Good Life]

Can anyone tell me the DISADVANTAGES of beekeeping, I am trying to formulate an answer for a bee exam.

Any input gratefully received

BoutBees

Becoming so nervous as a new bee keeper that you put some impossible stains on the inside of your bee suit that not even Ariel can remove!

 

[susbees]

becoming so nervous as a new bee keeper that you put some impossible stains on the inside of your bee suit that not even ariel can remove!

t m i q f t g l....

 

[dale popham]

you need DAZ

 

[beeatshellards]

or vanish?

 

[tonybloke]

t m i q f t g l....

????

 

[susbees]

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Too Much Information and his user name abbreviated...in capitals it decapitalised and with gaps and a space it decapitalised. Sigh...

 

[tonybloke]

oic