Bees help pollinate the fruits and vegetables that sustain humans, he said.
Some of those sites are no longer in the program. Hives placed at the National Archives building in Waltham, Massachusetts, last year did not survive the winter.
“Honeybees are actually very opportunistic,” he said. “They will feed on a lot of different types of plants.” Other federal facilities with hives include the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services headquarters in Baltimore; the federal courthouse in Hammond, Indiana; the Federal Archives Records Center in Chicago; and the Denver Federal Center.
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