The Hedge Druid

Hello Gwas

It would be good to talk, I have fallen on this site by accident.

Below is a little, sorry a lot about my findings, it is self explained so I will leave you to draw your own conclusion.

My contact details are at the end.

Enjoy reading.

John

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Saving the Honeybee as Nature would have it!

Honeybees have been telling us the answer for thousands of years in “why” they swarm and “where” they settle, unfortunately man could not see it, the answer was in front of them, invisible, but in front of them.

The answer is now below and very clear;

My name is John Harding and I have found the answer, combination and solution to stop honeybees dying.

I am a beekeeper of 30 years` experience, keeping up to 300 beehives, until 7 years ago.

The demise of honeybees is nothing to do with any man-made product, they are not helping matters, but honeybees can and will cope with this.

Honeybees, in man’s care, were dying before the Varroa mite, Pesticides, Mobile Phones, GM crops, Global Warming, Transporting bees thousands of miles or whatever you care to mention was manufactured or thought of, you only have to check the UK National Audit Report 2008 for clarification.

Below, in two parts are the reasons why.

First part is an extract from my book.

The second part, after I had gained permission, with no objection, is from a proof copy leaflet that was presented by myself to all delegates, as they entered, the International Bee Research Association (IBRA) Conference held in the UK on the 29th January 2011.

Permission was also granted for my book to be placed with other IBRA books on their book stand.

I had hoped the delegates would read my leaflet and accept this natural answer with open arms, causing a discussion, this action was naive on my part. I did ask the organisers if I could have a slot, at the end, to talk to the delegation, for about 20 minutes, to explain my hypothesis, naturally I was refused. I was advised I could ask questions after every speaker. I took advantage of the moment.

After many years of knowing the answer today of all days I was going to be heard in front of Science. I did not go with the intention to promote my book which had only come out a few days earlier but it was too good an opportunity to miss. I wanted Science to know!

My passion and enthusiasm got the better of me and I may or may not have done myself a disservice by hogging the most of the question time, this may have alienated and upset some of the delegation, which I do apologise. The floor was open for others to ask questions and for others to speak. By the end of the day every delegate knew who I was and knew there was a natural answer, not scientifically acclaimed, but an answer.

Science does not necessarily have to create or find all the answers. I do not want man-made chemicals, fungi or bacteria in my colonies.

The second part was also used as a talk and demonstration, by myself, at the Friends of the Bees-Natural Beekeeping Conference held at Green & Away, Bransford, Worcestershire, on August 6th 2011, now on You-Tube. A very successful and rewarding meeting, I recommend it to all.

This, the second part, was also used at the Midland & South Western Counties Convention of Beekeepers at The Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucestershire on September 10th 2011. I was invited by the organisers to promote and sell my book and give out my leaflet.

This is now a slightly re-edited version of the same leaflet explaining my theory due to IBRA representatives being offended by this leaflet, not my book, in not wanting to be seen to be party to my hypothesis as it is not scientifically acclaimed. It was not my intention to even imply or suggest, however, I do apologise, unreservedly, in having caused any upset. I have adjusted, deleted and amended, this document, where necessary.

May I thank IBRA for bringing it to my attention, at this excellent convention in Cirencester. I hope IBRA are happy with the amendments, and they, or others, will help in looking for a more positive way in getting my book and findings scientifically acclaimed.

I do not mean to be a threat or upset anyone in having found an answer and solution that is free! You would have thought the beekeeping community would be very pleased, as it is a common cause for all beekeepers worldwide to stop honeybees dying. It is time for beekeepers to take a fresh look at how we keep our bees, after all it was not the bees choice, to be where they are, it was beekeepers.

I have received many e-mails of congratulations because rather than complain they have done what I have suggested “try it, its free”.

Please enjoy reading and then realise honeybees have been dying for centuries, not just recently. My apologies for its length however you will find it interesting and compelling, with Varroa being a thing of the past, your honeybees not dying and a greater return of honey.

First part; (Extract from my book)

I am sure you are aware of the plight of the honeybee worldwide.
Beekeepers need an answer.

Initially apiarist worldwide was putting the blame for the honeybee demise on the doorstep of the Chemical and Mobile Phone Industries.

Honeybees, in man’s care, are dying out at an alarming rate with no one knowing why. Pesticides, CCD, GM crops, Climate change, Mobiles, Transportation, Global warming or perhaps someone or something to blame would be acceptable to everyone.

There are many possibilities being put forward but as yet, no answers. The parasitic mite called Varroa is not helping matters with its contribution.

However there are two common denominators why honeybees are dying worldwide.

A short explanation first.

Chemical companies are investing millions worldwide infiltrating Universities, Scientists, Professors, Doctors, Institutes, Beekeeping Organisations and whoever, so they just might find a chemical, fungi or bacterial answer for the parasitic mite called Varroa that is sweeping the continents devastating honeybees.

Mobile Phone Companies are in denial not wanting the blame.

Chemical companies need an answer whether it is one or the other so they may recoup their investment and profit from beekeepers worldwide in selling their product.

Was Albert Einstein right in his alleged statement? “If honeybees die out then mankind will follow 4 years later” the chances are that it won’t be 4 years due to other foods such as rice being available but it will happen eventually as honeybees do pollinate 35% of what we eat.

Once honeybees are gone, honeybees are gone for good!

I have invented beekeeping equipment, in my time, that I am proud to say, does bare my name, “The Harding Queen Rearing System using Two Queens” (as seen on the website for BIBBA),“The Harding Mini Nucleus Complete System” and “The Harding Debris Floor” These are an inclusion in my book, Chapters 3, 4 & 5.

During my life’s work things happen and you wonder at nature, how perfect is the honeybee micro-world, why would you want to change it and yet mankind unknowingly has changed the honeybees perfect 200 million year existence to what mankind wants.

My beekeeping puzzle is based on observation, common sense and logic over the past 30 years with each piece complimenting the next, eventually creating a picture and discovering;

“The answer and solution to the Holy Grail of beekeeping”.

I have always thought there was a natural way to treat the parasitic mite Varroa.

After 18 years without treatment of any chemicals or sugar in my hives.

I have found the answer and it is a “World Exclusive“

It didn’t start with the Varroa mite 20 years ago, what the Varroa mite did was escalate the problem to what beekeepers had done worldwide, but it did bring it to the attention of the media and mainstream public.

Causing an over re-action due to Albert Einstein’s famous alleged quote. I repeat; honeybees were dying pre-varroa, just check out the UK National Audit Report 2008.Science is looking “after the horse has bolted” not as to why it happened or how it happened.

Honeybees started dying out when man found honey, tens of thousands of years ago, when man wanted to domesticate honeybees to harvest honey, putting them into logs, boxes, skeps eventually beehives but taking them away from their natural source of survival and requirements, which keeps their delicate micro-environment alive, and placing honeybees where man wanted them, unfortunately in the wrong place.
Nobody wants the blame but it is human nature to want to blame someone, so who is it?
The first common denominator for the demise of honeybees is………

Mankind!….YES! BEEKEEPERS!

Now, and in the past, to the very first one!

How could Mankind make such an error, read on and you will find out how and why Mankind are the reason for honeybees demise!

So what is the second common denominator?

Honeybees live in a micro-existent world with many of their daily duties invisible to the naked eye of man.

“There is a natural phenomenon that I have found, which the bees need to survive. This combination is necessary to complete their micro-existent world, and is free. I am the first person in the world to combine honeybees with this phenomenon, so you can imagine how Scientist and the Chemical Companies are going to react after spending millions around the globe”.

I have approached Universities and Beekeeping Organisations here, in the UK, and abroad, with my hypothesis but due to the infiltration of funding from chemical companies or others, Universities, Scientist, Professors or Scholars are unable to take my hypothesis due to inevitably losing their precious funding and being biased to a chemical, fungi or bacterial answer.

Yes! It is topical, political and controversial!

One single beekeeper taking on the might of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry, science and the Hierarchy of the Beekeeping World with every beekeeper past and present being the reason for their demise and the answer being a natural phenomenon which is free to everyone. Scientifically unproven, but works.

How often does this happen with science?

CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) only in the USA is also down to mankind for the demise of their honeybees having the same problems as us but with one extra reason that is only in the USA. (Chapter 2)

Whatever you think after you have read my book, I will not be popular with any beekeeper, scientist, professor or anyone looking for a chemical, fungi or bacterial answer, but may, just may, stop honeybees dying out worldwide.

That will be pleasing in itself. I am just a passionate beekeeper that has found an answer and solution. My book is a small part of the invisible world of the mysterious honeybee that is disappearing too quickly.

“Albert Einstein did not say that famous quote about mankind dying out. It was a misquote from Albert “N” Stein an American beekeeper of the same era as Albert Einstein. However with accent, dialect and poor communication at that time, it was misunderstood”.

Second part; (IBRA Conference)

(Some of the above will be replicated below, my apologies.)

This is now slightly re-edited version, taking away any form of collaboration that may or may not have implied to IBRA in sanctioning my hypothesis, with the explanation given earlier.

An HOLISTIC Way in Saving The “Honeybee”

Available from Northern Bee Books UK
http://www.groovycart.co.uk/beebooks

(IBRA)Varroa-still a problem in the 21st century?

International Bee Research Association (IBRA) Conference
Held at the University Of Worcester on the 29th January 2011.

My name is John Harding, I have kept, researched, experimented, observed and used logic and common sense in trying to keep as much to nature as possible while keeping honeybees. During the last 30 years I have invented bee equipment that does bare my name.

“I have not used sugar or chemicals for the past 18 years, due to the first approved licensed chemical treatments killing a percentage of my queens“.

I hoped that one day I would find a natural remedy for the parasitic mite Varroa.

This, I have now done.

Explanation

We know that honeybees have been on this planet for 100 to 200 million years depending which book you read, so honeybees have evolved with planet earth. This has brought with it changing climates, polarity change, a change in continents with moving earth plates and a change in flora. In all that time honeybees have been dealing with disease, mites, intruders and any other alien insect or animal, even man.

Habitat

During this time, their home has been in hollow trees, caves or covered protected position so they may get away from draughts, rain or severe weather to build their amazing honeycomb nest that is kept to an accurate temperature +or-1 degree to raise their numbers required for survival both in summer and winter.

Mankind

Thousands of years ago man found honey. Due to the honeybees perilous home positions being high in a cave or high up in a tree, man decided to re-home the honeybee into logs, boxes, skeps and then beehives so as to make it easier to harvest honey. A form of domestication.
Has Man made a difference?………………..NO!

Except for realising a unique space (Langstroth) that honeybees respect, meaning we as beekeepers can inspect our colonies with frames rather than killing off the bees, that were kept in a skep, then held over a sulphur pit to kill the bees just to get the honey.

This observation only happened 150 years ago. Queen excluder’s were also invented.

Are there any other major discoveries?………………..YES!

Eddie Woods (a BBC sound engineer) discovered 60 years ago inside the honeybee nest that vibration levels was measured between 190hertz and 250hertz during normal conditions however when swarming this vibration went up to 300hertz.

Was any scientific work carried out at the time or later?……………….NO!

If it had we could be further along the path of understanding the honeybee better. Beekeeping today is much the same as it was in the beginning except of course the Langstroth frame space, the Bee Dance (Von Frisch) and Queen excluder.

Have Beekeeping books changed?……………………NO!

The amount of knowledge we have gained about the mysterious honeybee, it always seems to be much the same, repetition, but more in depth, more of a scientific language.

Can we still learn from the honeybee?………………..YES!…………….HOW?

Using observation, common sense and logic and asking “What do honeybees really want?”.

Honeybees did not ask to be put into a log, skep, box or beehive.

However, while in our care, we, as beekeepers, should give them and treat them as if they were in a wild state of nature.

We know they want and use vibration.(Woods)

We know they will respect a unique space.(Langstroth)

We know they use electromagnetic north/south in honeycomb building and in flight.

We know with a strong colony, disease and varroa can be kept to a minimum.

We also know with a colony of strength our rewards of honey are greater.

So! What do honeybees really want and need?………..VIBRATION!

How is it generated and used?

At the moment by the honeybees themselves, they use this to communicate, to ward off predators and to keep their micro existent climate to a perfect temperature of 96 degrees fahrenheit plus or minus 1 degree when rearing brood (young larvae), but is this amount of vibration sufficient? Unfortunately NO!

Can it be found elsewhere?…………YES!………………….Within Planet Earth (NASA)

Planet earth has evolved, so trees, animals, plants, fish, birds and insects has evolved with it and so too, honeybees, evolving with planet earth. This is why honeybees not only need a high vibration of 250hertz to sustain their micro-environment but actively look for it when swarming.

How could man know this?

You cannot see, feel, touch or sense this low vibration but honeybees can.

Planet earth vibrates energy constantly at 7.83hertz (NASA) unless disturbed.

Honeybees use vibration to get their micro climate between 190htz & 250htz (Woods).

Honeybees are placed by man in a beehive where man wants it, if the beehive is positioned on 7.83htz the following will no doubt be happening.

Honeybees will now have to work 31.9 times greater to get to their normal vibration levels of between 190htz and 250htz (Woods) just to stand still.

“I have reason to believe this weakens them, their immune system and defence mechanism then becoming an easy target for any alien predators like Varroa“.

Now, not being able to cope, over-stressed, disorder with eventual collapse, dying or disappearance is inevitable.

However, in many cases, they swarm prematurely leaving behind a weak colony that will inevitably perish! (Poor queen cells resulting in small and weak virgin queens that may or may not get mated and still being overrun with varroa).

Does planet earth vibrate an energy to the higher level of 250htz?…………..YES!

Transmitted upwards through underground rivers and called Geopathic Stress Lines. These rivers are everywhere around the planet, like, i.e.; blood vessels in our own body. Remember it has taken 4 billion years to get to where we are today.

Everything has evolved together, for a reason, to be where it is and why it is there. The climate, planet earth and logic have dictated that over millions of years.
Where does the higher earth vibration energy come from and how?

Planet earth normal vibration energy of 7.83htz gets interrupted by hollow chambers of running water/fluid creating friction allowing oscillation to resonate to become an Electromagnetic Wave Vibration Energy which will increase it up to and above 250htz.

Sound familiar? (The same vibration that honeybees require in the nest)

The rivers/lines of fluid are normally very close to each other varying in depth and only being up to 4 feet wide, like a cobweb, zig-zagging their way across the planet at depths of 200 feet or 300 feet creating vibration and rising upwards to the surface and skywards, creating an electromagnetic energy curtain that reaches to approximately 30,000 feet.

(Birds use this curtain to migrate thousands of miles).

There are 14 rivers/lines in my 3 bed detached house and 80 foot garden, so they are not miles apart, but everywhere, in close proximity, around the planet.

What is the connection of honeybee vibration 250hertz and Earth vibration 250hertz?

We know that honeybees maintain 250htz vibration within their nests(Woods). It is just too much of a coincidence, using logic that bees are drawn to planet earth 250htz vibration energy when they swarm.
Honeybees have “evolved” together with planet earth over millions of years, being drawn to the higher earth vibration energy, which is compatible to their own, giving honeybees less work to do, in getting to their optimum vibration within their micro-existent environment.

Honeybees need this higher vibration energy so they work 31.9 times less.

Then are able to deal with any unwelcome intruders, like the Varroa mite, hence why honeybees are drawn to it in various ways.

Are other species/organisms attracted to the higher vibration?…………..YES!

All Honeybees, Wasps, Bumble bees, Ants, Cats, Oak Trees and much, much more are all attracted to and found above earths higher vibration energy. All organism are attracted to or repelled from these lines of high or low energy vibration.

Cats will always sleep on a vibration/energy line.

Are honeybees drawn to Planet Earth higher energy vibration?………….. YES!

Swarms

Yes, every time they swarm. Honeybees always settle above a 250htz energy line. This has been checked on every swarm collected, about 30, in the past 3 years. All wasps nest and Bumble bee nest have chosen these energy lines when checked.
Bait hives

All bait hives placed above a line attracted a swarm.

Abandoned hives

Whenever I was called out to inspect abandoned hives one beehive was always above a line. This was the only hive with bees in and thriving. The others had died.

Self selection

Apiaries were left for 4 years to ascertain for self selection. After this time the only hives that survived, with little or no varroa were above a line, all the others had died.

The ones with little varroa were on metal stands. (Metal, reference later). The hives on wooden stands had no varroa.

Varroa resistant strain

In my early days of queen rearing I too thought I had a resistant strain only to find out every one that showed these qualities was above a line. I could not understand why they were so poor when moved to a new site, having shown perfect qualities when in the original site. This was before I knew about the lines.

“Any beekeeper that thinks he/she has a Varroa resistant strain. I can guarantee will always be above a line”.
Feral Colonies

They have not been killed off by Varroa; it was an assumption, not scientific. Beekeepers are to blame by putting hives in the wrong place where they die out with Varroa, so no swarms or feral colonies.

The swarms that are successful in becoming feral colonies are still out there surviving. Reduced in numbers, yes, due to beekeepers, but they are always found above a line sometimes above two lines crossing.

This begs another question of why do they prefer two lines crossing if at all? This I cannot answer, as yet. I require science and laboratory conditions to find out these answers. These feral colonies should never be moved unless insisted upon by the homeowner. They will die if moved or taken, and then put in the wrong position by man inevitable overdosed by Varroa. We are killing them thinking we are saving them.

Sheffield University

I was invited by Ricarda Kather to explain my hypothesis, while there I checked their apiary without any prior knowledge not knowing which was the best or worst beehive as all looked identical. These I believe were used for Varroa hygiene. I found the two best beehives that gave the best hygienic results. These were above a line.

Observations made pre-lines.

Hygienic behaviour

My apiaries have not changed during my beekeeping so observations have been made pre-lines, for queen rearing selection. During all these years Cleanliness, Varroa Resistance, Hygiene and Grooming have always been noticed to be far better than others within the same apiary not realising they were on a line.

Honeybees can deal with Varroa when above a line.

Honey yield

When above a line the honey yield is always 2 or 3 times greater.

Queens

These colonies have tended to supersede rather than swarm. Clearly they are in the right place so why swarm unless congested?

This does beg the question;

“Is swarming induced further by man?” being put in the wrong place by man. How long have honeybees been trying to tell us by swarming that we don’t like it here but would like to be over there where we settle?

Case studies that will cost you nothing;

Case study 1 (within the same apiary)

Take 2 hives of similar size and queen (“A/B“), both infected with Varroa

Place “A” above a line.

Place “B” away from the line.

Hive A; within 6 to 8 weeks this hive will have very little Varroa or none at all and thriving requiring supers.

Hive B; after 6 to 8 weeks will still be heavily infected with Varroa and much weaker.

Next season reverse these same two hives (if B is still alive).

You will observe B becomes Varroa free and A is infected with Varroa.

If you can use 2 apiaries within the same year, but 3 miles apart, the above exchange can be done after 3 months.

Case study 2 (within the same apiary)

Take 2 hives of similar size and queen (“C/D”), both infested with Varroa.

Place “C” above a line.

Place “D” away from the line.

Hive C; within 6 to 8 weeks this hive will have very little or no Varroa (above as with A).

Hive D will be as with B, heavily infected with Varroa.

After 3 months changeover the queens from these two beehives.

C and D, now become CD and DC.

CD; you would imagine CD would improve D to be Varroa free, not so, it carries on being infected with Varroa.

DC; Is still Varroa free.

“I have used these case studies on countless occasions, with many infected hives, and the results always being the same”.

Conclusion for both case studies……….

It is not strain or queen quality but position to where and what the beehive is placed above, an Electromagnetic Geopathic Stress Line that vibrates energy at 250hertz.

This is why, those that think they have a resistant strain will find on checking it is above a line.

One could ask, is that a bit lucky to place your hive on such a line? Yes, but there are millions of these lines and always very close by. It is the make up of Planet Earth, evolving for a reason.

Electromagnetic Geopathic Stress Lines once found can be verified by using a simple compass; it will show a few degrees disparity from normal.

Metal structures under the beehive appear to influence these energy vibrations so it is not advisable to use metal stands or put beehives above a metal structure such as a metal structure building.
Metal above the nest appears ok.

I have been asked what about the metal Varroa screens below the hive, will that effect it?

Yes it will if you leave there, so now, you will now not need it, because you won’t have varroa!

Is it the honeybees dealing with Varroa or Varroa not liking the higher vibration/energy?
Phase two;

This is where I need a Large Company with an interest in Keeping Honeybees Alive for honey or pollination, Organic Honey, University or Chemical Company for funding to help with;

Scientific Acclamation,
Manufacturing a hand held device,
Deal with media and promotions etc,
and much more.

There will always be questions, especially to a way forward. I have the answer for that to!
This is just one very important question answered to stop honeybees dying.

Thank you for reading my hypothesis.

This is in my book and available with the answer to “Saving the Honeybee as Nature would have it”, and “The Way Forward”.
An HOLISTIC Way in Saving The “Honeybee”
http://www.groovycart.co.uk/beebooks

(IBRA)VARROA-STILL A PROBLEM IN THE 21ST CENTURY?

NOT FOR ME OR OTHERS THAT ARE USING MY HYPOTHESIS!(Harding)

However, that is until it is scientifically proved then IBRA may or may not sanction my hypothesis, you will have to draw on your own conclusions. I would love to have a British scientist confirm my hypothesis rather than go abroad where funding is not, always, controlling the outcome and an answer being more important, which mine is and it is free.

John Harding
(I am not a writer or scientist, just a passionate beekeeper that does not want his bees to die!)

Copyright John Harding 2009/10/11

If you feel the need to contact me then please do.

harding@clavies.freeserve.co.uk

07974121472 or 01384423557 (Stourbridge, West Midlands).

Saving the Honeybee as Nature would have it!

It Works and is FREE! Try it what could you lose! Nothing.

I look forward to learning about your discovery Gwas.
Good luck friend.