Why are dozens of colorful boxes stacked in this field? To provide homes inside their walls for millions of honey bees, those hardworking pollinators, producers of honey, and tormenters of Winnie-the-Pooh. Wild honey bee colonies build their nests in trees and caves, but manmade boxes also do the trick, and humans have been building their own beehives since antiquity. The modern beehive boxes shown here contain frames to hold honeycombs that bees produce to store their honey, pollen, and young. When the bees have produced plenty of honey, the beekeeper can simply remove the frames to extract some of it, leaving the rest to nourish the hive.
Is that a buzzing sound?
Today in History
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Gateway to America
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Yarn for Distaff Day
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World-class art comes to Arkansas
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World Octopus Day
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Green is the new black
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Manatee Awareness Month
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Holidays in the Venetian Lagoon
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Góða ólavsøku, from the Faroes!
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A different kind of dive
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Into the woods
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Misool, Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia
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Folegandros Island, Cyclades, Greece
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A glimpse of the Blue Forest
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Fiesta at Siesta
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Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
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Ravens
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It’s National Walk to Work Day
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Taking the scenic route
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Christmas market at Belvedere Palace in Vienna
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Black History Month
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Brain coral
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Death Valley National Park, California
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Nomads of the Gobi
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Make your list and check it twice
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Infant Sumatran orangutan, Indonesia
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A star is borne by seaweed
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Merry and bright
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Freeloaders of the avian world
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The persistence of Perito Moreno
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Aura River in Turku, Finland