And we're building birdhouses.

The projects are things like,

I'd trade for birdhouses any time.

If there's one guy who loses all his bees because of a truck overhaul, everyone pitches in and gives 20 hives to help him replace those lost colonies.

Uh,like for making holes for birdhouses?

I mean,I'd rather be making birdhouses.

It's like, Ugh, so that's what we do. (Laughter)

Paris has been a terrific model for urban beekeeping.

I don't know. I don't make birdhouses.

This is in Paris where these beekeepers live.

You can paint a hive to match your home.

It's nothing to panic about. They're all over the city.

So even though we've lost 30 percent of the colonies every year, the same number of colonies have existed in the country, at about 2.4 million colonies.

And so this opens up the whole idea of looking at colony health.

He left early. Something about getting to wood shop early To finish a birdhouse.

It comes in the mail it can come from Australia or Hawaii or Florida, and you can introduce that queen.

Now, that's an awful lot of bees.

If we lost one in every three cows in the winter, you know, the National Guard would be out.

And you can do that one year in a row, you may be able to do it two years in a row.

Eagle nest

So he put the material in places where the birds were going to collect them, and they crafted his nests for him.

I have a lighter in my pocket if you need one.

Could go to Eagle's Nest.

We've got a box for the car, we got a box for the money, we got a box for the job, we got a box for you, we got a box for the kids, we got a box for your mother somewhere in the basement.

There are only a few species that can do it.

Sir, nest

A koel bird's nest, sir

And these ants are called harvester ants because they eat seeds.

And one of our real worries with Colony Collapse Disorder is the fact that it costs so much money to replace those dead out colonies.

These are three hives on the rooftop of the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, and they're beautiful here.

Robbed again?

Oh, shit.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next .

You look great.

What's a bird's nest?

Hey! There's a wasp nest over there.

Four boxes of minimints, two toffee totes, two caramel clumpies and fifteen boxes of coconutties.

So it means that beekeepers are very good at replacing dead outs, and so they've been able to cover those losses.

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Some people who have XX chromosomes develop what are called ovotestis, which is when you have ovarian tissue with testicular tissue wrapped around it.

Our house was robbed while we were away.

A spider weaves a web.

Birds build nests.