Bee Ag Exemption Honeybee Leasing and Management
The name of this website comes from watching bees work.
My wife and I find a great peace as we see these wonderful creatures flying in and out of their hives gathering nectar and pollen. They make a quiet humming as they fly by and in the morning there is a sweet wax smell that emanates from their homes as they emerge on their way to find flowers. When sage is in bloom here in the Texas Hill Country, the bees gather around the bushes in an aerial dance moving from blossom to blossom in something that almost resembles a square dance.
Bees work as a fascinating team. Workers or field bees bring in nectar in their honey crop and pollen in special baskets on their hind legs. They enter the hive and immediately pass their bounty off to nurse bees that take the nectar and refine it into honey and store it in wax comb. Young bees have the ability to secrete small plates of white wax which are then constructed in an exact and very efficient comb to store the honey. Other bees are taking pollen from the returning workers and making bee bread from a honey and pollen mixture. They pack this colorful pollen mix into the comb often creating a rainbow of color. Still other bees are tending to the queen. There is always a cluster of nurse bees that feed and care for the queen of the hive. The queen’s retinue is also responsible for carrying her scent throughout the hive. As long as the bees in the hive can smell the queen, they know everything is right in their world. The queen’s job is to lay eggs. A good queen can lay 2000 eggs per day and as many as one million in her lifetime.
One more intriguing thing about bees is how they communicate about a food source. When a field bee finds a source of nectar or pollen it enters the hive and does a dance for the other field bees. The dance is called a waggle dance and moves in a figure eight pattern on the wax comb. By the pattern in the dance and the position of the sun the bees watching the dance can fly almost directly to the nectar source as far as three miles away.
Observing all of these things brings us joy and peace. It does not get much better than that. Bee peaceful.
Lolita and Joe Bader
About this website
One of our primary focuses is on ag exemption for beekeepers in Texas. We have been studying Texas law, the ag appraisers manual and the appraisal districts valuation on beekeeping land for several years. There are different classifications and values for different types of land. Beekeeping land is often the highest valued and highest taxed. We have several suggestions on how to lower your property taxes on beekeeping land.
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Farm Address:
BeePeaceful Colony Management
138 Siebeneicher Rd.
Boerne, TX 78006