It’s a recurring disaster that can seem like a biblical plague: bees cropping up covered in parasites, with deformed wings, or slaughtering their own larvae. Sometimes workers will vanish from the ...
“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 health of his honeybees at Rock Hill ...
When Jerry Mattiaccio noticed the thick steel chains and padlock wrapped around the gate of his Virginia bee farm last Sunday afternoon, he suspected he had aggravated some neighbors. Not everyone ...
It’s a recurring disaster that can seem like a biblical plague: bees cropping up covered in parasites, with deformed wings, or slaughtering their own larvae. Sometimes workers will vanish from the ...