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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Celebrating Chile’s Independence Day
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Mid-Autumn Festival
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Birds of the Drömling
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Feast of the Donkey
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Jupiter and the Galilean moons
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A monastery in the mountain
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Native American Heritage Month
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A theatrical dream
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Portland celebrates its bounty
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Male kori bustard, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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Float on
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Corn maze in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania
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Saguaro cacti, Ironwood Forest National Monument, Arizona
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Taking the forest to the cloud
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A treaty for science
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Happy Arbor Day!
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Red squirrel in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland
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International Museum Day
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Preveli Gorge
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Sailing on thick ice
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From Sputnik to extraterrestrial storms
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Talk like a pirate—or walk the plank
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The Sky Over Nine Columns in Venice, Italy
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Drop in on International Surfing Day
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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Aloe in bloom
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World Otter Day
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Nha Phu Bay, Nha Trang, Vietnam
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A spectacle unlike any other
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Menton, France