• peto (he/him)
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    2624 days ago

    For honour, for the hive, for things ordinary humans can not understand.

    The real sad thing is after stabbing their opponent the winning beekeeper dies anyway.

  • slazer2au
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    1124 days ago

    To show favour to the queen bee and to improve moral of the other bees that they are well protected and can relax to make more honey.

  • verity_kindle
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    1024 days ago

    Because there are 10000 ways to successfully raise healthy bees. Arrrgh. source: hobbyist beekeeper

    • Smee
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      1024 days ago

      See that’s where you’re wrong, there’s only one way of raising healthy bees. Every body else has it wrong.

      Source: I’ve discussed my own hobby online as well.

      • verity_kindle
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        624 days ago

        Haha, be my friend, join me in this corner, we can be mean to the others together!

  • @Pumafred9@lemmy.world
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    524 days ago

    That’s the one thing Beekeepers don’t do; stand down. Not unlike bees themselves, Beekeepers keep working until they die

  • sylver_dragon
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    324 days ago

    That’s just active equipment testing. Sure, a suit may claim to protect you, but you don’t actually know it will protect you until it’s been thoroughly stabbed a few times.

  • @glorkon@lemmy.world
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    224 days ago

    I discuss this and other important topics in my new book “The Naked Apiarist: Elementary Mistakes in Beekeeping”.

  • CaptainBlagbird
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    224 days ago

    You know it’s a shitty world when even the beekeepers are fighting each other.