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HIVE & SEEK: 12,000 To 15,000 Bees Have House-Swarming Party In Downtown Ridgewood HIVE & SEEK: 12,000 To 15,000 Bees Have House-Swarming Party In Downtown Ridgewood
Hive & Seek: 12,000 To 15,000 Bees Have House-Swarming Party In Downtown Ridgewood Tens of thousands of honeybees had a hive-swarming party that temporarily closed a stretch of downtown Ridgewood on Monday. It wasn't immediately clear what brought the colony to the tree in front of the Starbucks on East Ridgewood Avenue. Perhaps there was a promise of more honey and shorter working flowers. Village police summoned Frank Mortimer, a local beekeeper who recommended that the colony be removed from their perch 30 feet up a tree. Tens of thousands of honeybees had a hive-swarming party that temporarily closed a stretch of downtown Ridgewood on Monday. Boyd A. Loving Fir…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
25-Year-Old NJ Native Turns Beekeeping Hobby Into Full-Scale Business (Look Inside) 25-Year-Old NJ Native Turns Beekeeping Hobby Into Full-Scale Business (Look Inside)
25-Year-Old NJ Native Turns Beekeeping Hobby Into Full-Scale Business (Look Inside) Once thought to be allergic to bees, one 25-year-old New Jersey man has turned his favorite hobby into a full-scale business while helping others to learn more about apiculture — the art of beekeeping — along the way. Dumont native Patrick Harrison, primary beekeeper at HarBee Beekeeping now open on Route 206 in Newton — tells DailyVoice.com that he once thought he was allergic to bees following an incident at scout camp when he was young. “Someone stepped on what was probably a wasp nest, after that, I carried an EpiPen,” he said. After testing negative for the allergy during his first y…

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by Valerie Musson