النحل والنمل والدبابير

When Rudolf Steiner was in Dornach, he gladly answered questions from the workers who were building the Gothanium. Beekeeping and honey production were booming, giving rise to the popular Bee Conversations series, which provides insights into the role of insects and their relationship to the environment. These were not theoretical lectures, but rather spontaneous conversations in which Steiner addressed various topics, such as the effect of the bee on the flower while searching for food, the role of toxins, especially formic acid, which helps the soil resist decomposition, and the importance of honey in the human diet. He also warned of the dangers of intensive and artificial beekeeping, which he predicted would threaten bee populations over the next hundred years. Eighty years later, one wonders whether the use of the gaucho system today is the only reason behind the mass bee die-off, and whether there are deeper truths behind this disaster.