Donald A. Windsor
Wild honey bees nest inside hollow trees and we sometimes find them flying in and out of an opening. However, I have never seen the inside of a natural hive.
Until Sunday morning on a Bullthistle Hike through the Basswood State Forest in Oxford. We were taking a well-deserved break on and around a large fallen tree trunk, when Dot Rice noticed the hollow tree trunk contained a bee hive.
The bees probably abandoned the hive when the tree blew
over, apparently several years ago, because the wax honeycombs had
deteriorated to a fragile dry material.
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