Bees to Honey
Nearing my father-in-law's house, I was surrounded by a concrete jungle. Tax services, restaurants and shopping centers were closing in on me. I then turned the corner onto Cherry Street. This put me on a residential block. A man was walking his dog and a family with young children was returning home from an unknown adventure. Little did I know I was about to embark on a journey all my own.Over twenty-years ago, my father-in-law, Lynn Cheatum, was helping a neighbor cut down a dead tree. In this dead tree was a colony of bees and a lot of honey. " I was fascinated by it, " Lynn said recalling the incident. He then began telling me how his curiosity of bees had always been there but he had never acted upon it. Lynn was still unable to act on this curiosity because one of his neighbors was violently allergic to bees. This neighbor had to get a shot once a month, just in case a bee stung him, so he wouldn't die. A few years later, in 1977, Lynn moved and was able to start his apiary, a place where you keep bees and their hives. He mail ordered his bees from Sears and Roebuck. Lynn remembers the bees came in a cage with a screen, similar to a window screen, on one side. The bees also had a supp
Walking out the backdoor I noticed two boxes to the left of a stack of firewood. I inquired about this to find out that a worker bee's life span is about 3-4 weeks. After my observation of the bees and my interview with Lynn, I realized the bees also fascinated me. He acted as if this was normal, and explained he didn't think it was going to sting him, it never did. After taking off the lid, I observed about five rows of honeycomb. Kris looking very tenderly at her husband continues; she explains she was scared to death and raced to dial 911. To my wonderment he compared his interaction with the bees to petting a dog. I do believe bee keeping would take a bit of getting used to. The honey then is placed in jars ready for eating and the plasma in bags ready to save lives. Drones consist of about 1% of the bee population. Worker bees are the female bees in the hive that collect the pollen and do the work to keep up the hive. This I admit was a little bit scary; I was fearful we might anger the bees and suffer the consequences of not being in the proper cloths. We began discussing how she too was very interested in the apiary.
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