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In recent years, several urban US airports haveconverted some of the unused land past theirrunways to provide habitats for honeybees. Whileairports may seem unlikely locations for beekeeping,many of them, in fact, have the potential to offerideal conditions for an apiary (a group of beehives).The
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, for instance, hosts an apiary on a 400-square-footarea of land just north of one of its runways. This area is rich in Dutch clover, a preferred foodsource for honeybees. The honeybees may thrive
there in part because they aren't exposedto the agricultural pesticides suspected of contributing to Colony Collapse Disorder. Thoughunorthodox,
healthy populations of honeybees can be ensured with the help of theseairport-based honeybee habitats in local regions.
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