Housing and Development Newsletter
The wind was picking up again, so we got to work. I climbed up on the step-ladder, Susan held the swarm box open, and I started gingerly pushing bees into it with my gloved fingers.
Of course, since bees can fly and apparently think for themselves they didn’t all just fall in line and tumble into the box at my urging. A lot of them buzzed around us, some landing on our bee suits, while others continued to cling to the tree branch.
A swarm of 2,000 to 3,000 bees clings to a low-hanging branch on an old live oak tree. (Susan Riparetti photo)