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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Pi Day
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It’s NASA’s 60th birthday
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National Roller Coaster Day
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National Hummingbird Day
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Salmon return to the Copper River
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When Death Valley blew its top
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Salmon migration in full swing
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A day for our oceans
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The tale of squirrels like Nutkin
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Pamukkale, Turkey
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Spot on for International Cat Day
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In the Himalayas for International Mountain Day
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Antarctica Day
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International Cheetah Day
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Happy trees = Clean air
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International Tea Day
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Welcome to the Ring of Fire
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World Children s Day
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Whatever floats your boat
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Road to Sa Calobra, Majorca, Spain
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Happy Pi Day!
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Arambol Beach, Goa, India
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Lantern Festival
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Nomads of the Gobi
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Fashion models of the avian world
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Autumn’s swan song
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Moai statues on Easter Island, Chile
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Art abounds at the Palais Garnier
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International Day for Monuments and Sites