ASSASSIN: She was fat, and plump and an egg laying machine!

摘要

I've always been kind of a live-and-let-live beekeeper. I don't mean to say I'm neglectful. To the contrary, I've probably inhibited honey production by bothering my poor bees too much - they're just so darned interesting! I have taken steps to head off pests and disease, and to keep colonies from starving. But while I've played Robin Hood in the Spring with honey stores and, to some degree, colony populations, I have not been one to actively cull weak hives from the yard. So I was a full ten years into this hobby before I did what had once been unthinkable - I killed a queen. On purpose.