Queen Bee in Winter

As the year turns, honeybees in the darkness of the hive respond to the slowly strengthening light. Their lives and ours depend on the daily transformation of sunlight, through photosynthesis, into energy available to sustain us. The queen bee — seen here with a green mark — begins again to lay eggs, slowly now, but by spring, in the thousands. Learn more about keeping bees. Check out these photos of bees and their hives, taken by Bill Mondjack.

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