Style: Got a swarm of bees? Don’t panic!

Richard Vardaman estimates he has been stung during his dozen years as a beekeeper, “oh, a couple of thousand times,” writes Shea Stewart in Saturday’s Style.

The number of stings swells this time of year for Vardaman, who has “somewhere around” 63 honeybee hives on his property. Spring is when he finds himself more often than usual on the wrong end of a honeybee as he is busy removing swarms clustered in tree limbs, wrapped around fence posts or even tucked into cars.

This time of year beekeepers stay busy rescuing us civilians from gangs of bees who are looking for a new homes. See Saturday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for advice on what to do if a swarm of bees decides to make itself at home on your home turf.

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