Beekeepers take all the extra honey leaving just a bit for the hive itself. Do bees predict someone is going to take their honey? Do they make only a certain amount and then stop or so they just go ham and make as much as possible? Mmmm honey ham..
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In support of Romperover, bees just make as much as they do in preparation for winter, worker bees have very short life expectancy in summer. They gather it all for storage to make new bees and for food in the winter. They don’t have a plan, just that behavior, if a beekeeper robs too much the hive will fail, bears and others don’t care. The tax idea has some merit, Africanized bees are dangerous here since that level of response is necessary to protect the hive there.
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