I didn't even know that urban beekeeping was a thing outside of hotels and fancy restaurants until recently.<p>It turns out there are over 400 registered beekeepers and over 1,700 hives in the Chicago area: <a href="https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2019/06/27/city-has-a-bee-in-its-bonnet-over-west-side-apiary/" rel="nofollow">https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2019/06/27/city-has-a-be...</a>
Interesting design that's being crowd-funded that has a chimney to reduce human-bee interaction to help with stinging risk:<p>* <a href="https://kottke.org/19/07/a-small-simple-hive-designed-for-urban-beekeeping" rel="nofollow">https://kottke.org/19/07/a-small-simple-hive-designed-for-ur...</a>
>These large mammals are attracted to a hive by not only the honey in the combs, but also a colony’s eggs, larvae and pupae — and even the bees themselves. In one fell swoop, a colony can disappear.<p>Wow can you imagine swallowing a bee nest whole? I imagine that must do considerable damage to the stomach.