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Nectar source makes a tremendous difference in honey color and taste. Here, a late summer wildflower blend (left) is contrasted with linden honey (right) harvested earlier in the season from the same hive.
Supers full of ripe, capped honey await extraction.
A beautiful frame of ripe, capped honey ready for harvest.
Beekeepers will often mark queens to render them more visible. The color is standardized to correspond to a particular year; blue paint indicates this queen was marked in 2010.
A beekeeper holds a frame of capped worker brood.
Beekeepers have long known that smoke calms bees, preventing the colony from mounting a full defense against intruders. Here, a beekeeper smokes a hive before opening it.
A beekeeper examines a frame of honey.
A beekeeper examines a frame of honey.
Bees in a Langstroth moveable-frame hive.
A beekeeper holds a frame of capped worker brood.
A beekeeper holds a frame of capped worker brood.
A beekeeper holds a frame of capped worker brood.
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