No Hunting!

It is time to stop being Beekeepers and become Bee Conservation activists. 
After 42 Millenia, Honey bees are not domesticated but essentially, still wild.
They arrive only to swarm away from time immemorial.
Once the hive has decided to divide there is little the beekeeper can do.
Birds and now bats are provided with boxes high up on trees and apart from nosey CCTV nature programmes, are left alone and as a result the boxes are used regularily every year. 
Honey bees, like doves, have been robbed for centuries.
Before Victorian factories spawned wire netting, built-in lofty dovecotes provided eggs when vulnerable flightless chickens were mere fox-food.
Today, more than ever, honey bees need security too.
Our landscape has radically changed since the founding fathers of beekeeping: there are no fields safe for insects any longer!
Our food is grown on poisoned land with poisoned seed!
The last, best hope of the honey bee now comes from the canopy of city trees and theirgardens.
The honey bee differs from the harmless dove by having a sting in its tail.
Conveniently honey bees have excellent wings and can live at an altitude well above the head of Joe Public!
So though an air brick in the gable of a house, the bees access to their hive in the loft. There, in the warm, silent, darkness, the bees can live in peace for years on end.
Merely allowing them to hermetically seal their hive, the antiviral, antiseptic, antifungaland antibiotic properties of propolis keeps the hive healthy, as it has for 42 million years.
Honey now is no longer the aim but the preservation of the species.
The formation of a "bee reserve" where hunting and all forms of human interference isforbidden.
They must swarm to preserve the youth of the hive .
The swarm must look for new territory away from the foraging area of the mother hive.
All the bee curator must do is to provide suitable secure homes for the swarms to find.
What we did for the birds should be done for the bees

Picture shows a very large pigeon loft
we now need a beeloft
don't you think?