STAFFORD, Va. (7News) — “I love it. It’s in your blood. It’s a way of life," said bee farmer Jerry Mattiaccio as he headed down his property in Stafford County, Virginia, to check on the ...

To harvest honey safely, you will need a campfire, a glass bottle, and some patience. You can craft a campfire with wooden logs, sticks, and coal, while you only need glass to make a glass bottle.

Dead bees at the foot of a hive Monday at Rock Hill Honey Bee Farms in Stafford County, Virginia. (Jerry Mattiaccio) By Emma Uber.

Pesticides contaminate the dead bees, honey, and wax. You need to dispose of them as hazardous waste or risk further contamination. How to Get Rid of Beehives. Bees are vital to the environment.

Pollinators, like honey bees, are crucial to an estimated 35% of the world’s food crops, the USDA reported in 2022. In 2023, honey bees were worth nearly $350 million in production .

Virginia authorities are investigating the deaths of 500,000 bees after someone vandalized a honey bee farm, killing off 60 colonies.. Jerry Mattiaccio, the owner of Rock Hill Honey Bee Farms ...

In 2020, she founded the supplement company Queen Bee, which sells health drinks that incorporate bee products like honey and royal jelly. And for every bottle sold, a pollinator tree is planted ...

The Sioux Honey Association, makers of the famed Sue Bee Honey, is donating more than 6,000 bottles of honey to the Food Bank of Siouxland.

500,000 bees dead: Stafford Co. farmer ... to check on the health of his honeybees at Rock Hill Honey Bee Farms. ... his team is hustling to bottle his bold wildflower honey for weekend farmers ...

Millions of dead honey bees were found by a Virginia beekeeper in what he said was a calculated attack on his farm.. Sixty colonies of honey bees were fatally poisoned and “steel chains and ...