Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold. Unlike commercial substitutes that lack key nutrients, this supplement mimics natural pollen’s sterol profile, giving bees the equivalent of a balanced diet.
In a standard bee hive setup you don’t even extract honey from for over a year. You have to ensure a population that is high and only take when there would be abundance. It would be counter productive to extract too much honey because it makes their population not grow as fast, and therefore end in lower honey production. I doubt bee farmers are trying to get less honey.
Well, you can’t have infinite growth if you can’t house them. At some point, all you beehives are full so you take as much as possible without hindering the population.
If their population gets to big dont they just split essentially, the old queen and a bunch of bees “swarm” which is just them moving elsewhere, which the old hive usually just raises a new queen and keeps going.
Or are you saying they are worried to many bees will leave or they may not get a new queen in time?
What I was talking about is taking honey from bees. You take too much some of them will die, you don’t take any the population will grow. Beekeepers know how much honey to take so they won’t breed too much and split (because you bees expanding and splitting doesn’t benefit you).