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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
Beekeepers may harvest honey from July until October, according to the honey flows in their area. Good management requires keeping the hive free of pests and disease, and ensuring that the bee colony has room in the hive to expand. Chemical treatments, if used for parasite control, must be done in the off-season to avoid any honey contamination.
Most beekeepers in the Richmond group don’t get purple honey, though they also keep bees year-round in the Sandhills area of the state. The few that do will jar and sell it locally, Auman said.
Most cities in North America once prohibited the keeping of bees, but in recent years, beekeepers have succeeded in overturning these bans. Many urban areas now attempt to regulate the activity; [4] while registering beehives is often mandatory, a high proportion of urban beekeepers do not inform the city.
Cavan Images/Getty Images There’s now a record number of honeybees humming in the U.S—and for many farmers, hobbyist beekeepers, and almond-milk lovers, the news is sweeter than honey.
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: Mountains Avery: 474 acres (1.92 km 2) [3] Not open to the general public Headwaters State Forest ...
Beekeepers are sometimes called to capture swarms that are cast by feral honey bees or from the hives of domestic beekeepers. [18] [19] Most beekeepers will remove a honeybee swarm for a small fee or maybe even free if they are nearby. Bee swarms can almost always be collected alive and relocated by a competent beekeeper or bee removal company.
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