Also, I am at odds with what is going on with this anti treatment attitude towards bees. But the same people that have this attitude would not say, hey, only my dogs that can resist flees should survive and all my dogs that get infested and overwhelmed shall die and that will be better for the survival of the species. Or, deny those injections for their cattle, horses, chickens and all their other animals, to keep them healthy and alive. I just do not understand the difference.
We do exactly this with our livestock.
I keep sheep and poultry - if I have to deworm a sheep more than once in its life, it gets culled. I only breed the animals that don't have parasite problems. If chickens, ducks, geese or turkey are frequently getting sick, I cull. This means I have better breeding animals, and better offspring. I haven't had any problem animals in years - the weak lines are gone.
There is a major difference in pets, and livestock. With a pet, you are trying to make that animal's quality of life as high as possible. With livestock (and bees are livestock) you are trying to make the population's quality of life as high as possible. With livestock, I'm concerned about multiple generations, and how my actions affect the quality of future generations. With my pets, I'm not - they're neutered or spayed.
