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Orlando Honey Bees in Water Meter
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| Honey Bee comb from water meter |
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The african honey bee has become a major problem in florida and is rapidly spreading.
African honey bees have a tendency to rapidly build their nests in small meter boxes. For example this colony in an Orlando meter box is a fairly new colony but has already accumulated 10 pounds of brood(immature bees).
In this colony very little honey was found, this is a common question because bees are supposed to make honey, right. Well the african colony is different not only in their aggression but also in their building nature, they produce mostly brood, which is the larvae stage of the bees and not as much honey, therefore they have more soldiers for there vastly growing army.
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Close up of larvae, pupae, honey, nectar in comb
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