4) However, the natural process allows for a brood break and reduces mite load. Varroa mites are a major issue and the commercial bees are heavily treated with chemicals to fight them

Overall, it's a recipe for unhealthy bees.

3) Their genetics are just okay. They're bred to be workhorses with queens that lay 2k eggs per day. They breed queens so they are more or less disposable. It's cheaper and easier to requeen this way than allow for the natural process.

3) It is regular practice to harvest honey then feed sugar water. It is best practice to supplement that with probiotics and other nutrients. It gets expensive to do that, so most commercial beekeepers don't.

2) These bees are stressed. They are driven from crop to crop on semis, sometimes across the country even.

Then they are in a holding area with all the other trucked in bees where their diseases can mix and mingle.

1) Beekeeping here. The bee losses this year are from commercial beekeepers. It is very concerning, will cost lots of money, and affect force pollinated crops like almonds, BUT it is not surprising. Here is why.

Commercial beekeeping is run like any other factory farm agriculture.

GABA has been life changing for me in that regard.

I live in NC. The mask ban exists. To my knowledge it has never been enforced. People still mask. In fact, we're seeing an uptick in masking. Mask bans are still bad.

Yes. Caraway supplements come from caraway seeds.

This explains triphala.
www.healthline.com/nutrition/tr...

I can't get Movantik due to cost, but have had good luck with triphala. I've considered caraway as well.

I'm an ex-gymnast and I have had the twisties. It's a mental block brought on by fear, stress or anxiety. It wasn't that I lost my mind-body connection. It's that I needed to stop freaking myself out.