Bees on the News(paper box)
Once again, Sting and his cohorts the Police announce that they are touring, and specifically playing New York City, and immediately bees go into action!
On Wednesday, a swarm of bees took over a newspaper box on the Upper East Side. Emergency Services were called but hung back, and somehow “bee whisperer” Jim Fischer, a volunteer at the Bronx Zoo, was called in (who knew there was a “bee whisperer?”)
He said he sprayed water on them so they wouldn’t fly.“This is a swarm,” he said. “This is how bees reproduce. The hive breaks in half and bees swarm around the old queen. Somewhere around here, there’s another hive of bees. We just don’t know where.”
This reminds me of the time bees swarmed onto a tree on my block in Brooklyn. While everyone else seemed surprised and alarmed, I was fascinated (”look, a bee tree!”), and knew exactly where the bees had come from (a man who keeps bees on his roof). A few days later, the bees were gone. My explanation was that they had saved up enough money (or perhaps honey?) to put down 20% on a co-op.
