dailygood.org · 13 hours ago

Relocating 6 Million Singapore Bees and counting, One Nest at a Time, by Reuters | Dailygood

With bare hands and a bandana, Clarence Chua has spent six years convincing Singapore residents to choose rescue over extermination - relocating roughly 100 bee nests a year, some six million bees in total, to apiaries he tends himself. Where most people see a pest problem, he sees a colony worth preserving intact: queen, workers, and young together. "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," he says - a philosophy tested once when a seemingly docile swarm stung him a hundred times in thirty seconds, and that he still carries with him. His work is a quiet argument that attention and patience can replace fear, and that one person's willingness to show up differently can shift a community's instincts - town councils now call him too.