Michelle Obama's Bees Didn't Swarm the Media
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
The buzz around the East Wing this week was about a bee swarm that landed on the North Lawn, leading many to fear that the hive in Michelle Obama's garden had flown the coop. But beekeeper and White House carpenter Charlie Brandts tells Whispers that the swarm most likely wasn't from the hive he installed in the first lady's South Lawn garden. In fact, he calls his hive "just right" and not ripe to swarm. As for the ball of honeybees that landed near the news cameras by the northwest gate, Brandts caught them in a cardboard box and gave them a new home.
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the section continues:
904.2 The provisions of this section shall not apply to bees confined in hives, or to bees kept on property that is enclosed so that the bees cannot stray from the property.
Michelle Obama is openly breaking the law
In Washington DC it is prohibited to keep honeybees in a hive within 500 feet of a residence. Yet despite this Michelle Obama has a hive of honeybees in her garden on the whithouse grounds illegally, as does Toni Burnham the so-called "underground urban beekeeper" that recently came out of hiding and was celebrated by the Washington Post along with the president's wife.
Title 24, Section 904.1 of the DC Municipal Regulations (DCMR) states "No bees or hives of bees shall be permitted to be kept when there are human habitations within a radius of five hundred feet (500ft.)."
Scofflaws such as these give those of us who are law abiding beekeepers a bad name and set a bad image and example for others, especially children.
Is sure is nice to be rich and powerful or have friends in high places. The laws are not enforced for such people. Shame on the Washington Post and any other media outlet that give such people celebrity without reporting the fact that the hives are in violation of the law.
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