YOU may have heard of bees migrating with the changing seasons but a person migrating with his bees is surely a rare occurrence. Rakesh Gupta, a 62-year-old beekeeper from Lucknow, travels with his beehive-boxes across India. He migrates with them to orchards in Kashmir, the coasts of Gujarat, the high altitudes of Himachal Pradesh, to Uttarakhand and to Rajasthan. Recently, the bees and Gupta visited floral fields in Lahaul and Spiti valleys in Himachal Pradesh.
The wooden beehive-box is a ventilated and layered box with frames for bees to make their hives. An entrance reducer protects. . .