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Article: Beekeeper finds development leaves fewer places for honey hives.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
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- October 14, 2002
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Jack Rollins is careful not to disturb his workers.
"Slow and easy," he says, as he approaches his hives of honeybees going about their business at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton.
Rollins, a hobbyist beekeeper for 72 of his 78 years, watches with fascination.
How meticulous they are. How each has its own job. How the female worker bees find the nectar for the hive and pick up pollen along the way. How the male drone mates once with the queen bee, then dies. How the queen lays 2,000 eggs a day.
To Rollins, the honeybee is the sweetest of insects. A part of the natural order. A pollinator who breathes ...