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Sting operation: Wasps, hornets and yellow jackets offer benefits despite their bad-temper reputation
There's a reason the age-old expression "Stepping into a hornet's nest" carries such strong connotation.
FROM the FARM: A reason to be thankful for this season's blueberries
Phil Potempa's weekly farm column recipe.
Smoke and No Mirrors for Persuading Bee Behavior
Dr. Jerry Coltro, a physician at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. is also a beekeeper hobbyist. Using puffs of smoke, he's able to calm and coerce a colony of bees to leave a natural tree hive along a busy Chicago street and relocate to a makeshift hive to be moved to a better location at d…
Gardening Beekeeping
Edd Buchanan displays a frame from a hive at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., in July 2011, to examine how well his bees are developing a honeycomb, which he eventually will remove, package and sell. At least a pound of worker bees and a queen are needed to make a productive apiary, s…
Benefit of bees: Raise your own pollinators, reap a sweet harvest
The buzz about honeybees in recent years has been about their vanishing act from gardens and farm fields.
September 29, 2011 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
Michael S. Thompson and Hives
Michael S. Thompson (standing) is the man behind the many custom constructed bee hives around downtown Chicago, including the prominent pride-and-joy Mayor Daley colonies based atop Chicago City Hall.
City Hives
Bee hives have found a home in the urban landscape of the Windy City, with empty lots and high-rise building rooftops around Chicago hosting hives flowing with honey sold at the Chicago Downtown Farmstand.
Bee and Flower
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's push for a "green scene" landscape in the downtown, with flowering planters and vast public park spaces, are an added draw for the hobby of urban beekeeping in the Windy City.
The buzz on urban beekeeping: Chicago high-rise buildings are home to active hives flowing with honey
Last month, when Irene and Thomas Renwald of Munster read about a seminar in downtown Chicago on the hobby of "urban beekeeping," their curiosity prompted them to attend.
March 09, 2011 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
The buzz on urban beekeeping: Chicago high-rises are home to hives flowing with honey
Last month, when Irene and Thomas Renwald of Munster read about a seminar in downtown Chicago on the hobby of "urban beekeeping," their curiosity prompted them to attend.
March 09, 2011 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
Martha Stewart Sketch by Artist Sara Wood
Artist Sara Wood says her 2009 illustration of Martha Stewart in beekeeper garb symbolizes the media mogul as "the queen bee of a massive hive of a corporation."
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