"I started beekeeping during Covid. I love nature, animals and farming, and I was always fascinated by bees and how they operate, particularly the role of the queen, and the development of the different roles they individually play over their life cycle."
It's about emotion, Davis says, leaning back in his desk chair on a rare desert morning not spent pulling a hive out of a crevasse behind a concrete pillar, or delicately scraping one off a roof. Your emotion matters for how the bees treat you. If you're scared and nervous, they're going to probably attack you, just because they know they can intimidate you to get away faster.