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Beewildered Companions


A film by Felix Remter and Miriam Remter. Mindjazz Pictures.


B 66 A FILM REVIEW by Mark L. Winston. Images by Felix Remter &Miriam Remter


eekeepers can be an opinionated bunch, prone to disagreements about everything minor to major about managing their bees. My favorite beekeeping argument took place


in a darkened movie theatre decades ago, at a preview for the Ulee’s Gold a widowed beekeeper whose son is incarcerated. He keeps bees for income, but beekeeping also proves therapeutic as he works through various personal and plot issues. Ulee’s Gold is replete with evocative beekeeping scenes,


 together frames. A row of beekeepers was sitting directly in front of me in the theater that night, and erupted in a louder-


      the correct sized nails or not, a discussion that went on for many minutes until the shushes from the audience quieted what had become an impassioned debate.


Nail size is a pretty minor point, but there are more serious disagreements in the beekeeping world. One of the          should be treated with chemicals, or colonies left untreated and honey bees selected for resistance to the mite by letting natural selection eliminate susceptible colonies. This practical question is tied up with a more philosophical inquiry spanning whether honey bees are domesticated farm animals or wild creatures, and where on that continuum each beekeeper


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