Each of the beehive boxes represents millions of visits to flowers, this is the number of flowers needed to produce a single pound of honey with another 6 to 8 million flowers to produce a pound of wax to build the comb (courtesy: Scientificbeekeeping.com).
By: John Green, Orange, Texas' Certified Expert Gardner
Gardeners it should be no surprise that honeybee (Apis Mellifera) colonies have been declining for many years (decades) affected by vectors, such ectoparasitic mite (Varroa destructor). The mites transfer the virus to the host by piercing the host (bee) body tissue which transfers the vector to the bee. Honeybees face other viral threats which…
