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honey bee
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honey bee
called also Apis mellifera. See also bee sting.
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Bees swarm when the queen is aware of a second queen about to hatch from a special queen cell prepared by the workers.
The buzz about honeybees by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
The commercial queen breeding industry is based on picking up and moving a three-day-old or younger honey bee larva into an artificial beginning queen cell called a "cup.
How to requeen your beehive by Hayes, Jerry / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
First-timers can find themselves spending a lot of time keeping bees fed on sugar water, culling extra queen cells and harvesting honey.
HOPING HIVES THRIVE by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
 
 
 
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