The Boyette
Law Firm
3205 Randall Parkway, Suite 202
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403
910-251-9213
www.BoyetteLaw.com
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WBM may 2020
European settlers are
credited with
bringing honeybees
to North America in the
17th century.
“There is a huge demand for
bees, and I don’t have enough.
I don’t have enough to supply
the growers in this area, so I’ve
actually asked other beekeepers
to bring bees and help supply
the demand in southeastern
North Carolina,” says Wayne
Cannady, a lifelong keeper in
Sampson County.
Beekeepers load their hives
on flatbeds or in semis and
deliver them to farms for use
during bloom season. They
handle the bees early in the
morning before they are out
flying.
“I’ll be up at 4 or 5 a.m.
moving bees off blueberries,”
Cannady says. “The bees will
start stirring about 8 a.m. in
late March.”
Cannady said a single hive
can contain 40,000-60,000
bees at its peak.
European settlers are cred-ited
with bringing honeybees
to North America in the 17th
century. A lot has changed
since then. Beekeepers are
faced with new challenges each
year.
“It is getting harder and
harder to keep bees alive,”
Cannady says. “There’s things
we are dealing with: mites,
viruses, beetles, disease, things
that we didn’t use to have to
worry so much about.”
He said the bee mortal-ity
rate is discouraging and
nobody seems to know why
honeybees are suffering.
“I don’t know if it has to do
with pesticides, or something
seeds are being treated with,”
Geannine M. Boyette practices
in the areas of Domestic and
Criminal Law, dealing with
issues such as Child Custody
and Support, Spousal Support,
Equitable Distribution, Divorce,
DWI, criminal and traffic violations.
Geannine also devotes a fair share
of her practice to defending
individuals against the
Department of Social Services.
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