PALM DESERT, Calif. — It’s a drizzly gray morning in the desert and Lance Davis, the country’s most famous bee catcher, is slightly cranky. He is sitting in his office on the backside of an industrial complex in the middle of the Coachella Valley, with no bees, no honey, no work and no money.
There’s rain in the forecast all afternoon. Davis’ equipment, a “Ghostbusters”-style vacuum that hoovers up swarms of bees without killing them and allows him to relocate them to his apiary 35 miles east, can’t operate in the wet.
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He’s the guy that saved Indian Wells last year, when a bee invasion descended on the spider camera above
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