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Honey Beekeeping Honey Bees
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Art Of Bee Keeping at the same time that the nectar flow is on. For pollination growers are looking for a surplus of foraging bees. The colony is composed of a single queen, workers (infertile females), drones (males), and brood (eggs larvae and pupae). The hive is kept in a box called a super. The colony of bees accumulates a surplus of honey and pollen to eat and survive in hard times. We take honey from the honey super, a box with a queen excluder so the queen can not lay eggs . During the nectar flow the bee population should be high. 30,000 to 60,000+ bees in each super. In winter the colony is about 6,000 bees. The bees cluster around the queen keeping it at 90 degees.
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