Trent Loos
Columnist

Boy, did I accidentally stir up a beehive this past week in my broadcast. Ingrid, my guest on Across the Pond from New South Wales, Australia, started talking about the importance of the honeybee. We’ve likely all heard the reports that pollinators are responsible for 1 in 3 bites of food we take.  That is largely dependent on the diet you consume but I don’t feel like that figure is worth taking issue with.
The following day, Texas resident January Nachtigall spoke of her Bee Rescue and how she works with local developers to rescue bees from trees that are in the path of urbanization. I just returned from Texas myself and can verify that urbanization has a full head of steam. One day after the Texas bee conversation, my buddy Bernie Harberts from North Carolina started talking about building bee colonies from wild bees.
Ironically or not, the history of beekeeping in the new America was laced with small farmers who would go to the woods seeking feral bees that had escaped from larger operations that were primarily focused on harvesting the wax rather than the food sweetener.
For the record, the European’s “officially” brought the honeybee to North America in 1622. Prior to that, there were hundreds of species of bees and pollinators but none which produced either wax or honey.
To that point, The Revolutionary War Journal has some very interesting facts about the early days of honeybees here in the homeland.
It wasn’t the honey that colonials were mainly after, but wax production. It became an important export throughout Virginia by the mid-18th century; however, like milk farms of this day and age, only mega-farms and plantations produced enough to garnish a profit. In 1730, 343,900 pounds of Virginia beeswax was exported to mainly the West Indies and Portugal, calculating at approximately 172,950 hives throughout the providence.
Pretty impressive, except all these hives were predominantly in one region of the New World and restricted to large agricultural operations. Wax production records from 1747 – 1758 for Prince George’s County, Maryland, right next door to Virginia, mentions only 7% of large estates and for middle- and lower-class farms, the bulk of colonial agriculture, there is no mention whatsoever. Well-managed colonial farms did not have the prerequisite honey producing hives.
The price and low frequency of acquiring honey restricted its use – so other sweeteners were of far more use. By the mid-1700’s, feral honeybees had established multiple hives in the woods and most small-time farmers hunted the hives, as did cave men thousands of years prior, practicing bee ‘lining’ as it was called, leading to the colloquial term ‘making a beeline.’
In 2025, we can easily relate to the concentration spoken of here in the early days of U.S. farms; however, it is the term “low frequency” that captured my attention. Mostly because of the conversation with Ingrid in Australia who spoke of the importance of bees and frequency. Much of the discussion taking place revolves around Colony Collapse Disorder and most of the blame is typically given to chemical applications. Aside from chemicals, I think we really need to investigate the role of massive frequencies pulsing through the airwaves that our wireless society is emitting into the bee’s world. It must be affecting them as negatively as it is all of us!
From BeeWhisper360.com:
An intriguing aspect of bee buzzing is its frequency, which typically ranges between 200 to 400 Hertz. This range comfortably falls within the audibility limits of the human ear, allowing you to hear and connect with the bees’ harmonious hum. For example, honeybees usually buzz between 250 and 300 Hz, while bumblebees produce lower frequencies around 200 to 250 Hz. These specific frequencies are more than just sound; they form a vibrational pattern that can have subtle yet meaningful effects on your nervous system.
Healing through vibrational frequencies is an emerging field that links sound waves to cellular health. The buzzing you hear isn’t just noise—it is a form of energy that interacts with your biological systems. By tapping into this vibrational energy, you can experience enhanced tissue repair and possibly a reduction in inflammation, making the vibrations emitted by bees a fascinating avenue to explore in holistic and regenerative medicine.
We have only skimmed the surface on what I am learning about the history and the future of bees as they pertain to human health. It turns out that honeybees were in high demand as the United States of America was taking shape for candles and polishes and protecting items from weather and wear. Are we cycling back as we always do where we shed “light” on the importance of an insect in preserving human health for generations to come? I see the swarm forming now to build a better hive for mankind; just when we thought we freed ourselves from the Queen’s control.