ABJ APRIL 2024 COVER

A candle to spring: Here is a typical early-spring scene. A young Caucasian queen (reared last summer) has been laying in every empty cell she can find – and one not-quite-empty one, where an egg stands like a candle wick on a vivid base of henbit pollen.

Timothy Williams took this photo February 25 at his home apiary in Gainesvile, Texas.