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Honeybees are domestic animals that have been selectively bred over millennia to overproduce. It's like dairy cows. If a dairy cow produced that much milk naturally, either her udders or her calf would explode.

The rest I can agree with.



That is not true. If they have a lot of honey, they make new queen and later hive, basically.

The issue you talk about just dont exist. They are fine without us, we regulate their reproduction for our own benefit.


I don't remember my hives overflowing or bees exploding when I didn't harvest the honey.


My bees would swarm if they filled up the hive and had no space to put more honey or brood.


Just like bees in the wild, otherwise they'd never make new colonies.




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