Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The number of managed colonies in the United States for honey production has been in decline since the 1940s and these losses have increased since the early 2000s. Colony losses during winter are normal within beekeeping, however the rate of honeybee colony deaths, higher losses during the summer, as well as the inability to find a determinate ...
Hobbyist beekeepers are buzzing after reversing America’s critical bee shortage in just 5 years. There’s now a record number of honeybees humming in the U.S—and for many farmers, hobbyist ...
Today, Adee Honey Farm in South Dakota, USA, (80,000 colonies) and Comvita in New Zealand (30,000+ colonies) are among the world's largest beekeeping enterprises. Worldwide, commercial beekeepers number about 5% of the individuals with bees but produce about 60% of the world's honey crop.
Honeybees on yellow ironweed. Followed by segment at one tenth speed. A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. [1][2] After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the current cosmopolitan distribution ...
Beekeeping. Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept. Beekeepers (or apiarists) keep bees to collect honey and other products of the hive: beeswax ...
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is an abnormal phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a honey bee colony disappear, leaving behind a queen, plenty of food, and a few nurse bees to care for the remaining immature bees. [1] While such disappearances have occurred sporadically throughout the history of apiculture, and have been ...
After the introduction of Varroa mites, feral honey bees declined dramatically in the US, though their numbers have since recovered. [120] [121] The number of colonies kept by beekeepers declined slightly, through urbanization, systematic pesticide use, tracheal and Varroa mites, and the closure of
Beehive. Painted wooden beehives with active honey bees. A honeycomb created inside a wooden beehive. A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes ...