So, if bees are busy, beekeepers must be pretty busy too! Some beekeepers only have a few hives, like me! Others have thousands of beehives (in each beehive there might be about 60,000 honeybees!) and take care of them as their job. So what does a beekeeper do?
Beekeepers might take their hives from one part of the country to another, and have beehives for pollinating crops. For all of the different plants that need honeybee pollination, the beekeepers don't live in the right areas- so they move their beehives. The load up hives on the back of a semi truck, cover them with a net, and drive across the country to flowers that are in bloom. In February, beekeepers take over half of the hives in the United States to the almond crop in California.
Some beekeepers are MIGRATORY beekeepers. They may have more than one home and travel with their honeybees during different parts of the year. Usually, these beekeepers take their beehives to the southern part of the United States during the winter.
Are you as busy as a beekeeper??
"Bee in the Know": There are around 2.5 million honeybee hives in the USA
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