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Some Aspects Of Apiculture In Minnesota, Carmen W. Harper, Charles F. Calkins

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The modest references to insects in geographic literature have been largely confined to those deriving notoriety as vectors of disease-producing organisms (e.g ., the tsetse fly and the anopheles mosquito). Among the beneficial insects, bees have been significant in man's organization of area for agricultural purposes for at least 4,000 years. The management of bees for the production of honey is a widely dispersed economic activity in the United States. Minnesota has been a leading state in honey production for many years. Minnesota's 1966 honey crop of 17,940,000 pounds was the third largest in the United States. Approximately 90,000 colonies …