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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1986)
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Beekeepers like honey harvest, call shunned insects fascinatind h tion fore shri dusi for; Star tal Wee ‘1 197! a H agai Ir tion 696-0683 Open 8am-8pm 7 Days a Week 1712 S.W. Parkway Across from Kroger (on Anderson shuttle Bus Route) SAN ANGELO (AP) — Two white-suited men wearing helmets and thick gloves advanced warily into a grove of trees. One man car ried a power pack on his back; the other held a smoking receptacle. Alien inhabitants whirred and hummed as they sensed the men’s presence. Ghostbusters? Americans visiting another planet? Wrong. Beekeepers Cecil Dickson and his son Andy suited up recently to harvest a “su per” of honey from a hive. First, Ce cil Dickson allowed the smoke to drift from the tin teapot into the hive to lull the bees. Andy Dickson removed a golden comb built by the bees in a flat stacked in the hive. The comb was covered with the cranky little insects. Andy Dickson revved up the power pack and aimed a stiff draft of air at the comb. Buzzing bees formed an unf riendly cloud on the other side of the comb. Gradually the bees dropped to the base of the hive in a black, unnerving swarm. Andy Dickson worked slowly, blowing both sides of the frame until he had cleared all but a few bees. He cleared three more frames before he finished. The frames, heavy with honey, were stacked on a dolly and removed to Dickson’s spotlessly clean warehouse where he stores and packages the sweet syrup. Cecil and Andy Dickson have been processing honey in large amounts for about four years. They began as owners of one hive, in trigued with the habits of bees. “They’re fascinating little crea- bees organize and function to pro duce and gather honey. He brings along a 35-minute slide presentation filled with pictures of bees at work on the flowers and inside the hive. Maureen puzzled But it is not honey that is the spe cial gift of bees to the world. It is their pollination of agricultural and floral crops, Lane said. Half the agri- altemately ignored si over the hive. Dunr.; time, their f riend died. Finally the couple visitedli hi ary and researched honewd ing. They talked to otherbeete^ in the area. “I didn’t worry about bee stings. Just getting the honey was exciting. We wouldn’t eat nearly as well without bees. ” — Travis Lane, beekeeper tures,” said Andy Dickson. “The more you learn, the less you know.” Travis Lane, a trooper with the Department of Public Safety, watched intently as the Dicksons col lected the honey. Lane has been keeping bees for 12 years. He is vice president of the Concho Valley Bee keepers Association, a 60-member organization of people who ex change information and advice about beekeeping. Lane speaks to school classes and interested civic groups about how cultural commodities in the United States began with pollination by the honey bee, he said. “We wouldn’t eat nearly as well without bees.” Lane began beekeeping when a friend appeared with a beehive one day. “Where do you want them?” the friend asked Lane. When Lane shrugged, the hive was placed in Lane’s backyard. “We watched and wondered what in the world you do,” Lane recalled. For three years Lane and his wife The first honey harvest newii Lanes three gallons of honci lli brushed the bees off the combs squeezed the honey from theewb “I didn’t worry about bee siis Ltme said. “Just getting the b® was exciting.” Nowadays the Lanes blowooiiJ bees and place the honey confe stainless steel tub and extract honey by centrifigal force, said. The empty combs are rewrj unharmed, into the hive wher^j worker bees will clean thecomfc prepare them for storingpolkn nectar. 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