Almost all the apiaries I've been to, belonging to members of my BKA as well as 'professional' (teaching) and commercial apiaries, are tucked away in woodland, and not in obvious clearings either.
Most books and courses say that beehives shouldn't be under trees, but these gents have been successfully keeping bees for, between them, more years than I've had hot dinners so they must be doing something right.
Is the advice a myth, or has anybody real experience of it going wrong?
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