I actually no joke have a beehive in between my cactus and storage greenhouse. I wouldn't let one of our guys hit them with a spray because they're actually pretty friendly and no traces of africanization.

Phoenix Joey, that's great. There must be some healthy hives around that swarmed. Didn't you say once that regular boxed bee hives kept on the grounds of the SABotanical Gardens for the purpose of polination?

No actually there's an old duck nesting box that just happened to be the perfect place for a hive to start.

I was out by my rosemary and boy were they swarming today... or was that yesterday when it was warm ands sunny. We have some wild hives around here somewhere. They swarm strong when they like something. I had a surreal experience one spring, down in the gorge in back where a blooming tree was shaking hard and the canyon walls were reverberating with all the humming. My neighbor has some hives.