This circular is for property owners who have unwanted honey bee swarms on their lands or colonies nesting inside walls. It explains these natural processes and gives options for dealing with them. The Value of Honey Bees Honey bees are one of the most beneficial of all insects.
Honey is humanity's oldest sweet, and beeswax was the first plastic.
Today, honey bees provide these and other valuable hive products. In addition, thousands of beekeepers in the United States keep bees for fun and profit. Honey bees are important pollinators of almonds, apples, blackberries, blueberries, cantaloupes, cranberries, cucumbers, forage crops, kiwifruit, squash and watermelons. Honey bee colonies reproduce by a process called swarming. During mid-winter, the queen begins laying eggs and the colony population grows.