Happy Earth Day!! I was so excited today! I was completing a Waste Management Audit on an auto body and paint facility in a very old part of town when I noticed all these wooded structures in a side room. Asking about them I found out they were bee hives. The man was telling me all about the hives and I mentioned that I had found some bees in a sofa (March 5th) and low and behold it was he who had gone out and taken them! What a small world even in Las Vegas. He told me all about how he got them into his hive, that he had to kill the queen bee present as she was Africanized and replaced her with a "freindly" queen bee. And they have the only "Italian" bees in Nevada and how all the bee equipment works. Did you know that all the chemicals used on crops are causing the decline of bees? It was wonderful! What a glorious day. I sure do love my job! (First photo, the box has slats hanging in it that the bees use as a foundation for their eggs and honey collects on them. Second photo, a box with a screen and drawer, the bees pass through the screens which scrape off the pollon from their bodies which collects in the drawers. Then they can use the pollen to hand-pollenate flowers.)