Urban beekeepers know it's more than just honey and money

As concern about pollination and 'colony collapse disorder' spreads, urban beekeepers are helping preserve the local honeybee population, one insect at a time.

By Lori Kozlowski
LA Times
March 31, 2009

Kirk Anderson bought his first honeybees from a Montgomery Ward catalog in 1970.

The 3-pound cage came in the mail, and as he opened it and fed the bees sugar water, his lifelong passion with Apis mellifera began.

Nearly 40 years later, Anderson, 61, calls himself an urban beekeeper, and he cares passionately enough about bees that he does house-call rescues throughout Los Angeles County.

Anderson gets 20 calls a week. He fishes the insects out of Jacuzzis, removes them from chimneys and shakes them from trees.

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