Meet our hardworking bees!

Tuscarawas County, in beautiful Northeast Ohio, is the home of 65 beekeepers. The county's apiaries produce honey and bee's wax products on an annual basis. And, honey bees pollinate one-third of the food found on your dinner plate each day!

A honey bee works a Hollyhock blossom (photo by Bill Watkins).

Purple Coneflower is a favorite summer target for honey bees (photo by Bill Watkins).

Moving day - a swarm of thousands of honey bees moves into its new "condo" in Sugarcreek
(photo by Arlene Sigrist).

Honey bees crawl over cappings removed from a frame of honey
during the extracting process (photo by Bill Watkins).

A little summer pollen collection on the carnations.
(Photo by Bill Watkins)