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Armed with nothing but a bandana and his bare hands, 42-year-old Clarence Chua rescues bees, scooping them from nests into wooden boxes to relocate them, sometimes to his own backyard.«What I like about them is if you respect them and you don't threateRelocating 6 million Singapore bees and counting, one nest at a time
Armed with nothing but a bandana and his bare hands, 42-year-old Clarence Chua rescues bees, scooping them from nests into wooden boxes to relocate them, sometimes to his own backyard.«What I like about them is if you respect them and you don't threaten their safety, they are totally OK with you being at close quarters with them,» Chua said.When residents of tropical Singapore find bees nesting in their houses, they typically call pest control, which can exterminate nests in minutes for about $80 to $150. But Chua has convinced a growing number to allow him to rescue the bees for between $100 and $500.In the last six years, he has safely relocated an average of 100 nests each year, which comes up to about 6 million bees saved. Humane relocations entail moving the whole nest, keeping the queen bee, babies and worker bees intact in their colony. They are then moved to three apiaries that he manages, one of which sits in his own backyard.Chua has rescued bees from all sorts of exotic places, from a «spirit house» in a condominium to a plane's engine, which could not take off until the swarm was relocated. Read more
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