Hello Len,
It is a shame that our bee population is on the decline. This past year I saw almost no honey bees.
When I was in high school in Florida, we lived close to a bee keeper named Boettger, he taught my mother about beekeeping and she started her own hives here in Indiana. She built her own hives, the boxes, combs and had an extractor. It was all set up in her garage and everyone helped to wire the combs and build the boxes for the hives. And of course extract the honey and expecially eat it!!! The honey was so much better than any you could buy in the stores. She was severely allergic to bee stings, but she loved caring for her bees. She always carried an auto injection of epinephrine just in case she was stung.
Hopefully something will be done about the decline of our domestic honey bees.....
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