India’s migratory beekeepers and their hives follow the flowers to make the honey flow

Teona Gherasim

BINNABARI, India (AP) — The beekeepers rise early. They’ve come a long way to spend the winter months in the electric yellow mustard fields of Assam, and they have to make the trip worth it. At dawn, they eat a simple breakfast and won’t eat again until dusk. They’ll spend all day checking the hives, smoking them to disperse the bees so they can collect thick golden honeycombs to be sold overseas. It’s a demanding job. Stings are a fact of life. At night, the workers settle in under blue

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