 "Capital (Annapolis)")
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Hives are the bee's knees
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Peter Quinton of Severna Park has a hobby that's all the buzz of
the neighborhood.
Sitting in a small enclosed area of his wooded yard are a couple
of plain looking boxes with a slot at the bottom and a nondescript
roof on top.
Inside is a literal beehive of activity.
Master Gardeners offers courses on beekeeping and Mr. Quinton says
that anyone can have their own hive in the yard.
People don't think about bees much, but they are important in food
production.
"A third of all we eat is tied to a honeybee," advises Mr.
Quinton.
Strangely enough, honeybees are not native to America. The
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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NSW: Bee hives quarantine at NSW apiaries
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia)
; ...discoveries of the small hive beetle, or Aethina...beetle damages honey bees by tunnelling through...pollen and killing bee brood. There are...offence to move bees, hives, components of...equipment and all other bee products except...know the small hive beetle has been...
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 "Dispatch (Gilroy, CA)")
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Bee hives hit hard.
Newspaper article from: Dispatch (Gilroy, CA)
; ...require far fewer bees. But beekeepers are hiking prices for hives, said Pitts...ago, renting a hive might cost $50...by shipping in bees, farmers might...pests. "Every bee is being trucked...with them. Small hive beetles. Fire...and more of her hives turn up empty...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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Mystery of the missing insects ; Maine depends on hives of imported bees to pollinate blueberries, so die-offs in 22 states worry growers.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine)
; ...depends on hives of imported bees to pollinate...Front Memo: BEE FACTS THE HONEY...I lost some bees in the fall...commercial hives outside the...000 of the bee hives trucked...mites make the bee colonies more...manage their hives to control...stress on the ...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Pests devastate bee hives; Mites: Wet weather also has hurt bee populations
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...farmers who depend on bees to pollinate their...percent of his 110 hives last winter, and...farming equipment, bees are the most efficient...average 20,000 per hive. A recent Cornell...that regular honey bee pollination adds...flower nectar that bees collect to make...sugar to their ...
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 "Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, CA)")
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Kern County, Calif., almond growers fight mites that destroy critical bee hives.
Newspaper article from: Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, CA)
; ...almonds needs about two hives -- 16,000 to as many as 40,000 bees. A hive is a box full of bee colonies on flats about...Beekeepers used to treat hives with chemicals that controlled...mites, but kept the bees alive. By last year...
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Parasites Attacking Oregon Bee Hives
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...thirds of the hives in the West and...about 1.1 million hives to pollinate the...are not enough bees to go around...about $54 per hive for a pollination...production and hive rentals, Williams...hundreds raise bees as a sideline...bees, and causes hives to become ...
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Bee hives? Not in your backyard ; South Berwick is the latest Maine community asked to come up with a beekeeping ordinance.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine)
; ...the entrance to George Muller's hive in South Berwick. Muller recently started the hive in his backyard, but now a neighbor...the possible danger posed by the bees. A worker bee returns to George Muller's hive
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National collapse of honeybee colonies felt in Wisconsin; Bees flee hives
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...Domesticated bees pollinate most...rapid die-off of bee colonies gained...choices but to import bees from abroad, a...honeybees - each hive containing up to 30,000 bees - in December and...not set up new hives elsewhere. He...lost 240 of 300 bee colonies a year...
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Visual Art: Pick of the galleries: Bill Woodrow; Bees, hives and a pair a playful puzzles
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...glass "swarms", enlarged bee- stings, fat individual bee pupae, but above all hives flowing with wax and honey...shadow takes the form of a bee: above all the beekeeper...ancestors, as innumerable as the bees in his present day swarm...
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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THE BEE KILLER; Bloodsucking bug is wiping out our hives.(News)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England)
; ...t believe there is a bee hive in Wexford that isn...It is also in every hive in Kilkenny and Carlow...virtually all of your wild bees gone." CAPTION(S...could devastate the wild bee population as well as destroy hives everywhere
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