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NORTHSHOREMAG.COM 60 MAY 2019 ere's a particular hum that honeybees make when they are getting cozy in a new home. "ey make a happy hive sound," says Anita Deely, CEO of Beverly Bees, a North Shore company devoted to helping bees while offering a variety of bee-related products from honey to skin cream. "Bees are really happy to have a nice home." Deely gets to hear that sound a lot around this time of year. As spring brings with it tasty nectar-filled flowers, hives that survive the win- ter get busy fast with building up their colonies from winter losses. Sometimes, especially in May or June, a hive will get too crowded and split; the queen will move out of the hive with tens of thousands of residents to build a new colony, while a new queen fights to take her place in the old hive. e resulting "swarm" creates a crazy humming ball that might cover Honeybees are struggling in today's environment due to pesticides, monocrops, diseases, and pests. I N - D E P T H