Glass hives offer a close-up view of the bees at work, with the queen bee in each hive marked by a white dot.

玻璃蜂房可以近距离观察工作中的蜜蜂，每个蜂房的蜂王都被打上白点标记。

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An old elm before the house was hung with thick clusters of seeds and some bees just out of the hive were flying round it, keeping up a continuous hum.

窗前有棵老榆树，榆钱儿正密，一串串在枝上垂着，有几只刚出巢的蜜蜂，围着榆枝乱飞，不住的嗡嗡的叫着。

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So he set up two feeding places. One was close to the hive.

所以他建立了两个喂食地点。一个靠近它们的巢。

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In 2007, about one third of the US domesticated bee population was wiped out as a result of a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), with some commercial hive owners losing up to 90% of their bees.

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Another recommended driving nails through plywood, then laying the plywood around the hive, nail-side up.

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Europeans have lived stacked up, like bees in a hive, for generations.

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