Recently, a reader wrote Call Box asking for help removing a hive of honeybees in her backyard. The hive is 40-feet up in a tree, but the reader was concerned because her back yard is next to an elementary school.
Honeybees attack only when there is a danger to themselves or their nest.
Morgan, who is 74, said he keeps about 20 hives of bees and gets stung several times a day. Morgan said honeybees are important because they pollinate gardens and crops. He was in Monday's Florida Times-Union. Lanier's family has been in the honey-making business for three generations, since 1898. Tupelo honey is made by bees that suck nectar from Tupelo trees, which bloom for only two weeks in the spring.