Dave Scott has always been interested in bugs and animals, but when he was about 13 years old, he fell in love with honey bees when a swarm landed in his neighbor’s bush.
“There was something so fascinating about them for me. I mean, I could literally just sit in front of a beehive for hours watching them come and go,” Scott said.
His father helped him build his first beehive, and he dove right into his new hobby, learning everything he could from books in the library. As Scott grew up and moved from Indiana to California, beekeeping fell to the side.
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But soon, Scott — who works as a mechanic at My Dad’s Auto on Carson Street during the day — was dying to get back into beekeeping. In 2013, he started building up some hives and learned how to take care of bees in California’s Mediterranean climate…