By Sean Ridgway, TME

According to the US Department of Agriculture, honey bee pollination is essential to about one in three mouthfuls of food for United States citizens. With that in mind, when a bee stung me in the eye…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

Above: Some of the honeycomb from inside the walls

Above: The bees start to acclimate to their new hive

Above: Peter Bogdanoff and Kevin Rhea move bees into the bee boxes

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