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If 10,000 LA Biters use a beekeeper instead of pesticides to drive bees out of their yards, we'll keep 12,000 16-ounce honey jars full of pesticides out of the environment.

Honey is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated.

The Birds and the Bees

The Bite

Ready for The Talk? Here's the buzz: It's swarm season, and the diva bees and their workers are ready to lap up your flowers' nectar. But if they're, well, bugging you, call up LA-area beekeeper David "The Bee Man," and get him to collect and relocate 'em to local farms instead of driving them away with pesticides. Honeybee populations have already declined by 50% in the past 50 years due to pesticide use and colony collapse disorder (get a sneak peak of the documentary-in-progress The Vanishing of the Bees here). And while they may be pesky, they pollinate one in every three bites of our food, so it's important to keep them around. Besides, "the birds and...um, the birds" just doesn't have the same ring to it...

Wanna Try

David "The Bee Man" (310-207-1090). Bee removal, $95 and up (depending on location and size of hive). Donations to Vanishing of the Bees are tax-deductible and every dollar is matched.

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