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and another 20 scattered around the area at neighbors and friends. “Each hive has between 40,000 and 60,000 bees, so it wouldn’t be good to have them all in one place. Their food foraging range is two to three miles. “Worker bees attend to the queen, take care of the brood (eggs) and make wax for the first three to four weeks of their lives. The last three,
they leave the hive in search of nectar that is turned into honey. After that they die, the eggs hatch and the new breed takes over. The honey is stored to sustain the colony during the winter months.” Bees at the Doctor property don’t have to travel far to find a smorgasbord of nectar. His wife, Rosie, has planted many varieties in her flower
beds. In addition, the place is surrounded by cornfields. Doctor, who was born and raised on a Hoffman Road farm just west of his present residence, wears a full protective suit when taking honey from the hives. When he is checking on the queens, he will just wear gloves and the top with its zip-up helmet covering his face and head. “I occasionally
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get stung through my jeans, but the good thing is that the stinger stays in the jeans.” When he removes honey from the hives early in September, he uses a couple puffs of smoke to get them out of the honey boxes so he can pull the frames holding the combs from the hive. The smoke actually simulates a forest fire and makes them Continued on page 3
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