Course handbook by Les Crowder, edited by Heather Harrell
When I was 4 years old I liked watching bumble bees and honeybees on the honeysuckle vines in front of our house. I was afraid of their sting but fascinated by their color and buzzing. My mother had tried to keep bees briefly. She ordered all the equipment and the bees, and then the bees left. So we had an empty beehive. Then one day when I was about 15 years old my grandpa came running over to tell me there was a swarm of bees in a pinon tree! “Let’s put them in your mother’s hive!” he said. So we did.