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The Time to Act Is Now:
Taking Initiative for the Survival of the Honey Bee

To put all our resources into more hard science at the bee labs is, we believe, a mistake. We need minds that can bridge various fields of science and alternative ideas.

These minds must be motivated not by grants or money from multinational companies with conflicting interests, but must be motivated by “individuals” with a determined, heart felt concern for the survival of the honey bee. The new method of inquiry must be fully conscious of the “reality” that has presented itself here, the disappearance of our pollinators.

Study on increased crop yield with honey bee pollination

In the W. R. Roach Company orchards of Michigan, a McIntosh apple tree was screened to keep bees away from it. Throughout the rest of the orchard, bees had previously been placed in groups. The screened tree set twenty-five apples while its nearest neighbor forty feet away, where provision had been made for cross-pollination, set over 1200 apples.

In another experiment in the same orchard, one cherry tree was caged to prevent the bees from reaching it. The harvest was four pounds of cherries. Another tree the same size, exposed to bees, gave a harvest of forty-four pounds of cherries. Forty pounds of cherries is impressive evidence of the value of bees as pollinators.

While some crops are dramatically increased both in quantity and quality through the use of bees as pollinators, for other crops, bees make the difference between having a crop and no production at all! Caging experiments with cantaloupes and cucumbers have shown that bees must have access to the plants to transfer the pollen - no honey bees, no cantaloupes or cucumbers! Read Article


Research Goals
~Synthesize information gathered from different fields of science and use non-standard
methods of inquiry, to look at the problem from a diverse perspective.

~Continue to develop alternative beekeeping methods that consider organic approaches and develop guidelines and best practices for backyard Bee Guardians.

~Refining Top bar hive designs and innovative hive materials for alternative hive for developing world countries

~Enclaves of Backyard Bee Guardians using alternative hive designs and organic methods, will be able to restore genetics through natural breeding while providing a sheltered setting until the dire situation facing the honeybee has a chance to rebalance itself.

(We will be adding research to this page shortly, thank you for your patience.)