| Re: Honey Bee Swarm
My DH and I have an apiary. We'd LOVE to have one of our neighbors call us about a swarm of bees that's close enough to the ground for us to reach, take home, and put into one of our hives that we keep empty, in the happy event we'd get contacted about a swarm.
Honeybees are crucial to American agriculture and the foods we like to eat. pollinating about 100 flowering food crops--including apples, nuts, broccoli, avocados, asparagus, celergy, squah, citrus fruit, peachers, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, animal feed crops (such as clover). $15 billion worth of food--30% of food crops depend on pollination by bees.
Essentially all flowering plants need bees to survive.
If you see a swarm of bees, call a beekeeper. |