Big City (French) Honeybees – 20th Edition

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm

We read an article a few months ago about city dwellers installing bee hives on their balconies. It apparently worked fairly well, and we never heard anything negative from the neighbors on the same floor with undesired visitors to their balcony barbecues.
Now (beginning Sept 2009) we learned that the head of the department of Finestère (in Brittany) installed six bee hives (ruches) at their headquarters in Quimper [map], in sympathy with the protection of honey bees in the