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The Job and the Joy of Beekeeping |
| Section: LIFE / HOBBY |
| Author: Shelley Widhalm |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,023 Words, 6,301 Characters |
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Arlington, Virginia, resident Bennie Liles does not think twice about the stings he could get working barehanded with the beehives he keeps on a small Vienna farm.
"I've been fooling with bees since 1970," says Liles, the owner of Liles Apiaries. He keeps ten hives in Vienna, eleven in Leesburg, and five in Annandale, and sells the honey at farmers markets. "It's something that, more or less, is second nature for me," he says.
Beekeepers like Liles need to know how to manage an apiary, a place where honeybees and beehives are kept, and also understand the complex social networks of the insects, known by biologists as Apis mellifera.
Beekeepers are considered hobbyists if they manage one to 50 hives or colonies, while sideliners have 50 to several hundred hives to ea...
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...t is moved around will not produce a large honey harvest.
"The primary focus of the beekeeping industry is pollination of food crops," says David Smith, president of the Maryland State Beekeepers Association in Churchville, Maryland. "Without honeybees, the country would be in dire straits. There would not be enough food to feed the population."
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