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She also says that the mission of her company, Texas Beeworks, is to promote public awareness about bees and beekeepers. Her organization removes bees for free. [3] In 2018, the television quiz show Jeopardy! recorded video clues about bees for an episode of the show. The videos featured Thompson's organization Texas Beeworks.
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.
Beekeepers (or apiarists) keep bees to collect honey and other products of the hive: beeswax, propolis, bee pollen, and royal jelly. Other sources of beekeeping income include pollination of crops, raising queens, and production of package bees for sale. Bee hives are kept in an apiary or "bee yard".
With more than 271,000 colonies, Texas now has the third-most colonies in the country, sitting behind California, with more than 1.3 million colonies, and Florida, which has about 318,900 colonies.
An apiary in Warsaw, Poland. An apiary (also known as a bee yard) is a location where beehives of honey bees are kept. Apiaries come in many sizes and can be rural or urban depending on the honey production operation. Furthermore, an apiary may refer to a hobbyist's hives or those used for commercial or educational usage.
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
A Texas stay-at-home mom said she was trying to renew her driver's license when she learned there was a warrant for her arrest stemming from overdue library books. "I was so angry.
Location of Grimes County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grimes County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Grimes County, Texas. There are two districts and four individual properties listed on the ...