Buzzing about a 50,000-bee hive

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: September 17, 2004| Author: DAN VIERRIA | Copyright information

Sharon Sale wondered about the commotion.

"I heard the gardeners out there talking and finally this one guy comes over and says, 'Big! Big!' " she says. "That was the first time I'd seen it."

Overhead was a 100-pound hive of wild bees dangling from a tree limb in her Sacramento, Calif., backyard.

Making a beeline to the phone, Sale called in Shawn Smith, a beekeeper and owner of Peaceful Bee in Wheatland, Calif. Smith surgically removed the hive, which he says was the larg...

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