We mentioned this weekend that it was bee swarm season and would you lookie here, a swarm of bees this afternoon has settled in on a mailbox at the corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets. We know Little Italy is buzzing but you'd think somebody would have warned the queen that Mulberry Street real estate gets awful noisy come San Gennaro!
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Just Call It Little Ital-Bee
Beelieve It Or Not, NYC Has Its Own Bee Rescue Team
With bee keeping now legal in the city, there are a lot more bees buzzing around town. And sometimes in the spring, those bees decide to pack up their queen and seek out new digs. It happens all the time. But thanks to many a human's irrational fear of the little buzzers (damn you My Girl!) people often freak out when a swarm flies by. But they don't need to! This is New York City—we've got a Bee Rescue Team, run by nycbeekeeping, to help find a home for displaced swarms.
So Long, Urban Beekeeping Ban!
It's finally happened! After decades of secret beekeeping, city apiarists can finally harvest honey and pollinate their plants legally, because the bee ban has been lifted, reports the AP. In a meeting today the city's Board of Health discussed the decades-old law, and decided that because bee stings in the city are relatively infrequent, it's safe to allow the keeping of a nonaggressive honeybees. A ban on animals deemed too dangerous for city life still applies to other creatures, including hedgehogs and ferrets.
Jon, Brandon, and Eddie; Beekeepers
Though it’s not the most glamorous of the environmental issues, colony collapse is a problem. Bee colonies, responsible for pollinating a significant portion of the world's food supply, are slowly dying out. Hell, even Haagen-Dazs is getting behind the issue. So what are three culinarily-inclined New Yorkers to do? Start their own bee colony in Brooklyn! Jon Feldman (general manager at Frankies Spuntino), Brandon Hoy and Eddie Diaz (co-owner and manager of Roberta’s, respectively) have been keeping bees on their roofs in Williamsburg and Carroll Gardens in an attempt to boost their population and beautify the city’s flowerboxes. There’s just one problem: it’s illegal.
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