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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Happy Independence Day!
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Big Bend National Parks birthday
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A goldie gala
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A big birthday for Big Bend
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New York City skyline
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Happy New Year!
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Martin Luther King Day
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A bohemian feline
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A red knot on the Shetland Islands, Scotland
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Infant Sumatran orangutan, Indonesia
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75 years of the United Nations
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Devetashka Cave, Devetaki, Bulgaria
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Cherry blossom season in Tokyo
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You won’t see this on Mulberry Street
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All eyes on sustainability
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Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica
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Great Fountain Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
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Celebrating National Dentist Day
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Blue-footed booby, Galápagos Islands
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Taking the scenic route to Sturgis
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3,000 years of history
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World Rivers Day
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2022 FIFA World Cup
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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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A toast to California!
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A view fit for a queen
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Juniper Springs, Florida
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Windmills in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands
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Seattle Central Library, Seattle, Washington
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Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia