{"id":225448,"date":"2021-04-12T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/beehive-deliveries-keep-new-yorkers-buzzing-on-rooftops-backyards\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:50:14","slug":"beehive-deliveries-keep-new-yorkers-buzzing-on-rooftops-backyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/beehive-deliveries-keep-new-yorkers-buzzing-on-rooftops-backyards\/","title":{"rendered":"#Beehive deliveries keep New Yorkers buzzing on rooftops, backyards"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Beehive deliveries keep New Yorkers buzzing on rooftops, backyards<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Bustling New York City may not seem a bee-friendly place, but its high-rise rooftops and tiny gardens are buzzing with honeymakers threatened by pesticides in rural areas.<\/p>\n

About 2.4 million Italian honeybees waited in a white van to be taken to their new homes early Friday. It was parked near the Dakota Apartments by Central Park, where John Lennon\u2019s widow Yoko Ono has lived since 1973.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first year that we\u2019ve done this outside The Dakota,\u201d said Andrew Cot\u00e9, president of the New York City Beekeepers Association. \u201cWe heard that Yoko likes honey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cot\u00e9, who founded Andrew\u2019s Honey, drove up from Georgia to deliver the bees. The van held 200 wood and screen packages, each with about 12,000 bees. A steady stream of beekeepers lined up to pick up their 3 lb packages which cost $159 or $205, depending on when they placed their order.<\/p>\n

\u201cBees are sold by weight, like cheese,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Some buyers stuffed the packages in bags, while Ray Sage strapp<\/a>ed two boxes of bees to his bicycle to ride to his hive on the Lower East Side.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to just ride really slowly and carefully. Sometimes I think of it as I\u2019m training to be Danish and I never become Danish,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The number of urban beekeepers has grown quickly, with many hives now found on the rooftops of skyscrapers and office buildings, Cote said. New York legalized beekeeping in 2010 and has hundreds of registered hives, according to the Department of Health.<\/p>\n

Bee populations are in sharp decline worldwide, partly because of excessive pesticides and chemicals in rural areas, and a lack of crop variety.<\/p>\n

New York does not have this problem, making it a healthy bee habitat, said Alan Markowitz, a Bronx resident who is a beekeeper at La Finca del Sur Community Garden, run by women of color.<\/p>\n

\u201cA third of what you put in your mouth needs a pollinator. And in the city, believe it or not, bees do well because there\u2019s less pesticides general<\/a>ly,\u201d said the former farmer. \u201cHaving a lot of variety is wonderful for bees.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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