When we were at the farm on Thursday, we headed down to the bee keeping area of the farm where boxes that included hundred's of honey bees were producing honey in the frames within the boxes. When we got there, we used a smoker to separate the bees from one another so we were able to access the honey. We then took each box one by one and gathered the honey. Worker bees gather pollen in order to be placed in each honey comb in order to produce honey. The queen bee is responsible for reproduction of bees, while drone honeybees are primarily used for reproduction and later die shortly after mating. Every single bee within the box has a specific job and each bee must carry out that specific task in order to keep the hive thriving.
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