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Busy as a Beekeeper

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     challenging words:    apiary, apiculture, self-supporting, beekeeper, tolerance, excess, production, generally, successful, beeswax, beginning, income, equipment, pollinate, develop, professional

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Busy as a Beekeeper
By Joyce Furstenau 		  
1     Have you ever thought of becoming an apiarist? An apiarist is a beekeeper, a person who takes care of one or more hives of bees. A beekeeper's job can be fascinating. A bee's main job is to get nectar and pollen for its hive. As they do this, they pollinate a wide variety of crops. Many crops cannot produce fruit without the help of the honeybee. The honeybee is also our only source for honey and beeswax.
 
2     Apiculture is the keeping of bees and their colonies. Bees can be kept almost anywhere. The honey and beeswax bees make can make this hobby self-supporting. On farms, honey production and pollination services can provide a good income for a professional apiarist.
 
3     In order to be a successful beekeeper, you need to know as much as possible about the nature of honeybees. Besides that, you need to know how to use the apiary equipment needed to keep a hive. Keep in mind that even the best beekeepers get stung every now and then, but most beekeepers develop a tolerance to the venom.

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