""We thought we'll get all of this rectified," said Nicholas' mother, Sara Bard."
""I was pretty sad and they were sad too," Nicholas said, referring to his parents but also his bees. "When I told them, you can hear how they're feeling because the tone of their wings, the vibrating changes ... so you could hear that they were sad.""
Santa Rosa officials responded to an anonymous complaint and identified the Bard family's colony of thousands of European bees as "problem insects." The city ruled keeping the bees constituted an unpermitted home occupation, placing 10-year-old beekeeper Nicholas and his parents in violation and ordering removal. The family appealed and initially received a hopeful response from a city worker, but the supervisor affirmed the violations and added a possible nuisance-insects charge. The family was saddened but refused to surrender, creating a new swarm to challenge the city's directive. Nicholas's interest in bees began through local 4-H and a beekeeping presentation at a science fair.
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