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The honey bee was brought to California about 1850.
Most people are familiar with the importance of this bee to our
agricultural economy, and also of the dangers of the Africanized
variety (killer bees).
During the 1990's there was great concern about the drop in
the honey bee population due to a plague of mites. This honey bee
is busy pollinating my California
poppies.
The honey bee usually builds its hive inside a hollow tree,
attic, or some such. This hive is just naked honey comb hanging
from a tree branch at the Shipley
Nature Center in Huntington Beach, California.
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