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Deep in a sunny backyard in Los Angeles\u2019 Silver Lake district, a colony of 50,000 Western honeybees is getting oriented to its new surroundings. Yesterday, the swarm was living under the eaves of a house in Whittier, some 20 miles away. But they\u2019re here today because Walker Rollins and Kirk Anderson took the time to remove them — humanely.<\/p>\n

Anderson and Rollins are members of a club called Backwards Beekeepers, which relocates bee swarms and colonies in L.A. several times a week. Yet in doing so, they\u2019re breaking the law, because beekeeping here is illegal, and the city\u2019s most common tactic in dealing with feral bees is to exterminate them.<\/p>\n

Anderson says most people with a bad opinion about feral bees have barely any experience working with them. \u201cBees are like people,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody has a bad day. If a beehive has a bad day, people want to have it destroyed. If a person has a bad day, they put them on Oprah.\u201d<\/p>\n

But many Angelenos are frightened of bees, and might be uneasy with the thought of 50,000 of them living next door. Ron Lorenzen, an urban forestry manager for the city, says that while he wouldn\u2019t oppose a law allowing beekeeping in residential areas, his own agency\u2019s rationale for eradicating bees on public property is based on evidence of a dangerous new hybrid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a bee professional, but a pest control adviser [in our office] said that 80 percent of the hives they\u2019re finding are actually Africanized colonies. Evidently the bees are becoming more homogenous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Africanized bee colonies have been associated with the \u201ckiller\u201d bees that have recently attacked people and animals, causing some fatalities. Western honeybees are considered less aggressive.<\/p>\n

Backwards Beekeeper co-founder Kirk Anderson, who\u2019s raised bees for 45 years, thinks what Lorenzen says is nonsense. Bees aren\u2019t pests, Anderson says, and relying on pest experts to determine a city\u2019s bee policy is ludicrous.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll bees are defensive,\u201d he explained. \u201cThere\u2019s always been mean bees, and they can be mean for different reasons. By understanding them, you can do things so you don\u2019t trigger their meanness or their defensive actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the city, Rob and Chelsea McFarland run a nonprofit called Honey Love. After piloting feasibility studies and launching petitions, the McFarlands have begun lobbying the city\u2019s 95 neighborhood councils to make beekeeping legal in L.A.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe go on right after the ordinances for much heavier topics like gangs and drugs,\u201d Chelsea said. \u201cWe go up and we\u2019re like, \u2018Yay bees!\u2019 and they\u2019re like, \u2018You guys are the most delightful ordinance we\u2019ve ever had to vote on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

These guerrilla beekeepers believe that cities, with their diverse vegetation and lack of agricultural pesticides, are the bees\u2019 best bet for countering colony collapse disorder (CCD), and that legalizing bees in L.A. would be a big win for everybody. (CCD is a phenomenon where honeybees abandon their hives; it has been on the increase in recent years and is significant economically because many crops worldwide are pollinated by honeybees.)<\/p>\n

Rob McFarland says that encouraging people to keep honeybees in cities makes them safer from factors that are endangering the insects commercially.<\/p>\n

Rob and Chelsea McFarland have the support of 11th District city council member Mike Bonin. His proposal — allowing beekeeping in single-family neighborhoods — is moving through the Planning Commission and could be up for a vote in as few as five months.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, we allow single-family homes to do truck gardening — growing berries, flowers, fruits, herbs, mushrooms and nuts for private use or for sale at farmers\u2019 markets,\u201d Bonin explained. \u201cThis proposal would afford the same opportunity for beekeeping.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beekeeping is legal in San Francisco, San Jose and Sacramento. Russell Bates, who founded Backwards Beekeepers with his wife, Amy Seidenwurm, and Kirk Anderson, says interest in beekeeping is rising all over California, especially in urban areas where people are passionate about local agriculture and sustainability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen it on the rise in Arcata and Berkeley and Oakland,\u201d he said. \u201cIt bubbles up wherever people are curious about how to be more in tune with nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials estimate there are 10 colonies of feral bees in every square mile of L.A. With support for the new law beginning to swarm, the state\u2019s biggest city could be bee-friendly by this time next year.<\/p>\n

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