Why

[slazer2au@lemmy.world]

To show favour to the queen bee and to improve moral of the other bees that they are well protected and can relax to make more honey.

[lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'd you had a queen, you would understand

[peto@lemm.ee]

For honour, for the hive, for things ordinary humans can not understand.

The real sad thing is after stabbing their opponent the winning beekeeper dies anyway.

[pumafred9@lemmy.world]

That's the one thing Beekeepers don't do; stand down. Not unlike bees themselves, Beekeepers keep working until they die

[verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works]

Because there are 10000 ways to successfully raise healthy bees. Arrrgh. source: hobbyist beekeeper

[saltnotsugar@lemm.ee]

Honey addiction is real and tearing our communities apart.

[smee@poeng.link]

See that's where you're wrong, there's only one way of raising healthy bees. Every body else has it wrong.

Source: I've discussed my own hobby online as well.

[verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works]

Haha, be my friend, join me in this corner, we can be mean to the others together!

[phil_in_here@lemmy.ca]

You must know the sting of the blade to prepare thyself for the sting of the bee.

[thebat@lemmy.world]

Each queen sends her champion in the arena.

[sylver_dragon@lemmy.world]

That's just active equipment testing. Sure, a suit may claim to protect you, but you don't actually know it will protect you until it's been thoroughly stabbed a few times.

[captainblagbird@lemmy.world]

You know it's a shitty world when even the beekeepers are fighting each other.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

This is how they resolve issues when they are on the fence about something. That's why it's called fencing.

[glorkon@lemmy.world]

I discuss this and other important topics in my new book "The Naked Apiarist: Elementary Mistakes in Beekeeping".