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82Bee, Wasp, or Yellow Jacket?
I have to confess, it's a huge pet peeve of mine when people call wasps and yellow jackets "bees." I'm not even a beekeeper, I guess it just upsets me because it gives bees a bad rap... and they're having...
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78Choose Your Garden - The Honey Bee Garden
I've written a good bit about honey bees in the past, mostly because saving the honeybee is important to me and should be to everyone else -- unless you plan on starving. They are in danger and need our help....
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76The History of Bee Keeping
Beehives and beekeeping are of great antiquity, and the products of the bee were of an importance in earlier economies that we would hardly realize. Prehistoric man was well acquainted with wild bees and...
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73Solitary Bees
Solitary bees are the most common type of bee. When most people think of bees they think of swarms of social bees or honey bees. Most bees out there are solitary bees that live a solitary life as a single bee...
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76Extracting North Carolina Honey
My wife and my middle two kids (ages 16 and 13) are certified North Carolina beekeepers. They have several hives out in the garden, and every year in the May and June time frame is when we harvest the honey....
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73Bringing Back the Bees
Pollination is best described as the transfer of pollen from the anthers of a flower to the stigma of the same flower or of another flower. Pollination is an essential process if the flower is to be...
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71What is happening to our bees?
Reports started in 2006 in the US of the collapse of honey bee colonies. Workers were dying or failing to return to the hive leaving just the Queen, the babies and the few feeble nursemaids. Without the...
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72Three Queen Bees
Sometimes the hive I live in buzzes in sweet-honeyed competition, as there are three queen bees. A normal hive would only have one queen bee. Our hive does not pretend to be remotely normal. In a normal...
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7210 Interesting Facts About Honey Bees
For a few years, my summer job was working for a local bee keeper. I would sell and package honey and I got to witness many interesting occurrences. I was terrified of bees before I started working there; Now...
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70Beginning Beekeeping
The decision of whether or not to keep bees is a personal one. Not everyone is cut out to keep small, stinging insects, even if they love honey. Bees require a lot of attention, especially if you're...
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