"REWILDING" is putting honeybees back into trees - their natural home.  By allowing honeybees to BE honeybees, according to their instinctual abilities of 34 million years in the making, the bees will come back to their resilience and health.  We allow the bees to choose the genetics that are appropriate for their health and survival instead of humans choosing which genes are good for beekeepers. One has to check to see if these ideas are allowed by the laws of the land.

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Michael Thiele, Jonathan Powell, and Cheyanna Bone present many different speakers via zoom through their Arboreal Apiculture Salon. The zoom talks are free and quite interesting as people from around the world are creating a restorative way of working with honeybees.  

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There are four main ways of rewilding:

1.   Established forests can create tree beehives.

2.  Setting up honeybee sanctuaries.

3.   Planting trees long term for eventual habitation of honeybees.

4.  'Zeidler'Tree beekeeping - common in Poland and taking off world wide.

Here a space is carved out of the center of a tree (the dead part).

This is where bees in colder climates naturally live.  

So they would be able to choose their own genetics and how they deal with challenges.

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Links:

https://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/tree-beekeeping (5 min video, scroll down)

Britain's first Zeidler hive by Jonathan Powell

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