ARE BACKYARD BEES RIGHT FOR YOU?
Feb 28, 2022
4 minutes
HIGH SCHOOL teacher George Darby is in his back yard inspecting his bee hives while I take photos. I am kitted out for the first time in a full bee suit with a hood and netted visor and there are angry bees buzzing only centimetres from my nose and eyes. This is more disconcerting than I was expecting. I like bees and like to get right up close to them in my garden to watch them go about their little buzzy lives. These bees, however, do not like me at all and want me gone. Not surprising, because George is tipping each bee box sideways to scrape the beeswax off the tops of the frames
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