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Purple honey, also known as blue honey, is known to come from honeybees in various regions of North Carolina. Local beekeepers and apiculturists have seen it in different parts of the state, but ...
A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre
Some southern U.S. beekeepers keep bees primarily to raise queens and package bees for sale. Northern beekeepers can buy early spring queens and 3- or 4-pound packages of live worker bees from the South to replenish hives that die out during the winter, although this is becoming less practical due to the spread of the Africanized bee.
Some beekeepers believe pain and irritation from stings decreases if a beekeeper receives more stings, and they consider it important for safety of the beekeeper to be stung a few times a season. Beekeepers have high levels of antibodies, mainly Immunoglobulin G, caused by a reaction to the major antigen of bee venom, phospholipase A2 (PLA). [68]
Another factor is state legislation that offers tax breaks to beekeepers based on the idea that by caring for and raising bees, they help pollinate surrounding crops and farms.
Bladen Lakes State Forest: Coastal Plain Bladen: 32,700 acres (132 km 2) Open year-round via permit Clemmons Educational State Forest: Piedmont Johnston, Wake: 825 acres (3.34 km 2) [1] Open year-round DuPont State Recreational Forest: Mountains Henderson, Transylvania: 10,473 acres (42.38 km 2) [1] [2] Open year-round Gill State Forest ...
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Apimondia or International Federation of Beekeepers' Associations promotes scientific, ecological, social and economic apicultural development in all countries and the cooperation of beekeepers` associations, scientific bodies and of individuals involved in apiculture worldwide.