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Without honeybees, we would lose most commercial honey production, and many fruit, nut, and vegetable crops would see reduced ...
As the growing your own food movement gains momentum, many people are considering keeping bees in their backyard. People who are entertaining this idea have questions about starting this endeavor. One ...
Roughly 300,000 robot hives are in use across the U.S., scattered across fields of almond, canola, pistachios and other crops that require pollination to grow.
Regardless of the particular figure you may have encountered, beekeeping has become increasingly popular among the rich and famous in the past decade. Yolanda Hadid is into it. Ed Sheeran gave it a ...
Credit: Pixabay. Tucked away in the shaded corner of a community garden in New Haven, Connecticut, a beehive awaits. Seven ...
It is legal to keep honeybee hives in the city, but beekeepers must register their hives and adhere to health codes set by the city’s Department of Health. The D.O.H. can require beekeepers to ...
Worker bees only live for about a few weeks to a month, and a queen has to lay thousands of eggs each day to replace them. Without room to do so, Alexander’s hives will dwindle in numbers ...
The hive had been untouched since his grandfather, William Main, died of cancer in 2007, aged 77. It was dilapidated, so Ross got hold of a beekeeping suit and a beehive and learned how to ...
For Lazarus Fields, there’s always something new to learn about bees. “Every hive has their own little temperament,” he said, standing in a buzzing backyard on the northeast border of ...
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