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Preparing my back-porch beehive is my favorite rite of spring, but this year my flock mysteriously went missing. I'll miss more than just the honey.
  • Give me the hives!

    We have two bee colonies, one occurred naturally in the hollow of an olive tree, the other we built a crude hive for when they had to be moved from an outdoor armoir where they'd settled. They've both been there for years, swarming occasionally but always leaving a crew behind to replenish the population. Lordy, I hope they don't go away. The bee guy who moved the second hive for us said that when most people call him because they have a swarm, they don't want him to remove them, they simply want them killed. Eek, a bee, it's gonna sting me!

    People are hard to love, sometimes.