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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bron" data-source="post: 13453" data-attributes="member: 59">As an person who tries to be optimistic, I’d rather put my faith in the AFBMA rather than the rhetoric we have heard from the man on social media. I believed right from the beginning that if you’d been ordered to burn, there was more to the story. The MA, within the privacy restrictions, has tried hard to reassure beekeepers that this is indeed the case. I had my daughters in-laws here for a visit, their take on what they’d seen on tv & social media was interesting, they have no knowledge of beekeeping, other than as grateful recipients of the golden bounty. They were concerned 😧 that their was no ‘insurance/payment’ for burnt afb hives, based on what they’d seen the felt that the ‘poor’ beekeeper had been hard done by. I explained that in order to have afb supers then there were undetected afb hives. We then had short educational discussion about charlatans, posers & ppbk. My work was done. We need to educate, one person at a time if need be, bees don’t need saving, beekeepers do, sometimes from other beekeepers. Plant bee friendly plants, beehives take a lot more work, and aren’t garden ornaments. It’s been my catch cry over the last 4 years. We have to stick together, support those that support us.</blockquote>

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