To gather venom for commercial purposes, beekeepers place a sheet of glass embedded with low-voltage electrical wires at the hive entrance.
Beekeepers have a saying: Enough good food in the right place at the right time and your bees will be healthy, wealthy and wise.
These range from a youth organisation that taught army conscripts to use condoms to a beekeepers' association in the eastern province of Fergana.
He said responsible beekeepers try to keep swarming to a minimum but it was "frequently unavoidable".
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.
He writes regularly for the American Bee Journal and other publications, and believes, like most bee experts and smaller beekeepers, that there has been a rush to judgment in solely targeting neonics.
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 nearest group I could find was the Southern Vermont Beekeepers, and one evening I attended a meeting in the back of a Manchester bookstore.
And don't forget the compounds that beekeepers must use to keep Varroa from overrunning a colony.
Nowadays, nearly all beekeepers use hives of the same basic design, developed a century and a half ago by the Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth, a Congregational minister from Philadelphia.
In April 2006, the Resnicks' Paramount threatened to sue beekeepers for letting their bees "trespass, " according to a letter sent to them and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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.
Beekeepers and their supporters protested in Parliament Square on Friday to call for the government to support a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides linked to the death of bees.
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