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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Best fronds forever
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World Lion Day
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Love on ice
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Roman theater of Cartagena, Spain
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Giving Tuesday
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National Park Week: Haleakalā National Park, Hawaii
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
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‘You should see the one that got away!’
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Blue Lagoon spa, Grindavík, Iceland
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Grand finish of Le Tour
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Bald cypress trees in Georgia
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Loud waters
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World Architecture Day
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A learning garden
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Uncommon clouds are gathering
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Nomads of the Gobi
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Italy s submerged village
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International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples
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Hemingway’s Keys
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May the Fourth be with you…
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A place fit for the gods
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Sea fireflies at the seashore
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Killer whales in Spildra, Norway
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National Lighthouse Day
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Mount Rainier National Park
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Trevi in bloom
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Infinity Day
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Defying gravity on a swing ride
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Bavljenac Island