Until 2010 beekeeping was illegal in New York City and the ban was enforced; scofflaws were fined thousands of dollars for aiding and abetting Apis mellifera. There was, of course, an underground movement whose clandestine hives were found on rooftops, in old pigeon coops and gardens, but they've come down from the hills and rejoined society by registering their hives with the city and promising to maintain them.http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/03/16/beekeeping-no-longer-illegal-in-new-york-city/Hives%20in
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
