How does honey harvesting *really* work? ​ ​Jake, one of our Texas beekeepers, gave us a great explanation of how beekeepers harvest their honey. You'll notice he doesn't mention any cooking or filtering, just separating the beeswax from the honey in the final step.​ That's an important detail. Raw & unfiltered honey contains the natural nutrients, antioxidants, and pollens that the bees put inside. They're the fingerprint of each honey that makes it unique. | Local Hive Honey

Africanized honey bees create problems at three levels: ecological (competition and hybridization), beekeeping/agriculture (management and genetics), and public safety (defensive behavior). Africanized honey bees can reach very high colony densities and heavily exploit floral resources, which can reduce nectar and pollen available to native pollinators like stingless bees in Neotropical systems. Experimental additions of Africanized colonies near flower patches caused stingless bees to become le

In the 1990s, as Africanized honey bees spread into Arizona around 1993, the USDA-ARS Carl Hayden Bee Research Center (CHBRC) in Tucson became the key facility for official identification of feral colonies. Arizona relied on CHBRC's morphometric analysis, measuring wing vein lengths and 37 body characteristics from bee samples to distinguish Africanized bees from European ones with high accuracy. Genetic methods like mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis and PCR assays emerged during this period to