Occasional stings do occur, but the professional beekeepers are usually able to deal with it.
He said responsible beekeepers try to keep swarming to a minimum but it was "frequently unavoidable".
After more beekeepers began reporting problems, van Engelsdorp started travelling around the country, collecting samples.
Beekeepers in Buckinghamshire are looking for secure sites where they can cultivate healthy bees.
Any experienced urban beekeepers care to chime in with their thoughts on this sleek creation?
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And don't forget the compounds that beekeepers must use to keep Varroa from overrunning a colony.
Beekeepers, meantime, are shaking out their white cotton coveralls, netted veils and gauntlet-style gloves.
As this issue of FORBES hits newsstands, America's 100, 000 beekeepers are swinging into action.
How about fortune tellers, massage therapists, shampoo assistants, librarians, beekeepers, electrologists and movie projector operators?
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There may be too many bees in the capital, the London Beekeepers Association (LBKA) has said.
As winter draws to its dreary close, America's beekeepers are swinging into action.
Unlike many commercial beekeepers, Mr. Alvarez says he does not feed his bee colonies sugar syrups or artificial pollen.
Their study helped publicize the practice of beekeepers killing the animals and spur measures to identify "badger-friendly" brands of honey.
Employees of the host businesses will be trained to assist professional beekeepers to care for the hives and harvest honey.
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To gather venom for commercial purposes, beekeepers place a sheet of glass embedded with low-voltage electrical wires at the hive entrance.
In fact, their bees are so healthy that Australian beekeepers export queen bees and nucleus hives to countries with declining populations.
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Tim Lovett, the BBKA's public affairs director, said there has been greater emphasis on "training and developing" beekeepers in recent years.
Trials of Exomite carried out in the hives of members of the Meridian Beekeepers Association showed that it did a good job.
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But by my reckoning, it's the stress that neither the bees nor the beekeepers have control over that is a major issue.
As one of only 2, 000 people in the U.S. who earn their keep as full-time beekeepers, he's part of a select fraternity.
The scheme has also involved training for new beekeepers and awareness sessions.
Meanwhile Capital Bee is helping to train 50 community beekeepers in London.
Decades ago, when there were fewer almonds, farmers could rely on pollination just from the beekeepers who live in the Central Valley.
These range from a youth organisation that taught army conscripts to use condoms to a beekeepers' association in the eastern province of Fergana.
If so, the apiary industry in Maine is doing quite well--beekeepers in that state are required to obtain government licensing, the report says.
Beekeepers have a saying: Enough good food in the right place at the right time and your bees will be healthy, wealthy and wise.
Most beekeepers I've spoken to have written this year off as an interesting experience, and one they hope not to have again for a while.
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The nearest group I could find was the Southern Vermont Beekeepers, and one evening I attended a meeting in the back of a Manchester bookstore.
As a teenager, Mr. Alvarez joined the Sonoma County Beekeepers' Association and learned that local farmers would pay beekeepers to pollinate their crops for them.
Beekeepers and their supporters have protested in Parliament Square to call for the government to support a ban on pesticides linked to the death of bees.
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