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11.5 million. Likes. 169.2 million. Last updated: April 10, 2023. Erika Thompson (born 1986) is an American beekeeper with more than 11 million followers on TikTok. She posts videos of herself handling bees with her bare hands and wearing no protective gear. She lives in Elgin, Texas, and keeps almost 50 beehives in her backyard.
Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept. Beekeepers (or apiarists) keep bees to collect honey and other products of the hive: beeswax, propolis, bee ...
Barnard Bee Jr. monument at Manassas National Battlefield Park. Barnard Elliott Bee Jr. (February 8, 1824 – July 22, 1861) was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run, one of the first general officers to be killed in the war.
John Harbison, originally from Pennsylvania, was a successful beekeeper on the US west coast in the 1860s, in an area now known as Harbison Canyon, California, and greatly expanded the market for honey throughout the country. By 1890, William L. Coggshall had become the biggest beekeeper in the world, with over 3,000 hives in 15 locations ...
Bees for Development is an international charity [1][2] working to alleviate poverty through beekeeping. [3] Beekeeping contributes to supporting sustainable livelihoods [4] in poor and remote communities; honey bees provide an essential ecosystem service. [5] Bees for Development currently runs projects in Uganda, Zanzibar, Ethiopia and ...
Genus: Agapostemon. Species: A. texanus. Binomial name. Agapostemon texanus. Cresson, 1872. Agapostemon texanus is a species of bee found in North America. Commonly known as the metallic green sweat bee or the Texas striped sweat bee, it varies greatly in its appearance, with variations in color and in the amount of black markings on the legs.
M. texana. Binomial name. Megachile texana. Cresson, 1878. Megachile texana, the Texas leafcutter bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. [1] It was first described by the American entomologist Ezra Townsend Cresson in 1878. [1] It is native to the United States and southern Canada.
4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development". [1] Its name is a reference to the occurrence of the initial letter H four times in the organization's original motto head, heart, hands, and health, which was later incorporated into the fuller pledge officially adopted in 1927.