Farmers collect honey from bees

March 25, 2012 | 12:01 a.m. CDT

The queen honey bee, marked with a white dot, can be seen in the observation hive at Walk-About Acres LLC, a small farm in Columbia, on Friday. Owners Vera and Art Gelder tend the beehives on the farm and sell honey collected from the hives.

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