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bees at school and all the
girls got scared," Letvin's
11-year-old. son, Michael,
announces.
Letvin describes the bees
as masons. Once they settle
into their new home, they cl-
ing to the beeswax and begin
preparing the hive. They
seal it with a self-created,
sticky substance called pro-
polis.
The honey-making process
begins as bees stop on
flowers to sip nectar. As they
drink, pollen grains become
attached to their body and
legs. Carried in little sacs, it
looks like egg yolk.
The pollen grains combine
With enzymes the bees
secrete. When the bees
return to the hive, they de-
posit a load with younger
bees still unable to fly. The
younger bees spread the liq-
uid about the hive. A warm
breeze passing through
removes much of the mois-
ture from the liquid. Sur-
rounded by a light shield of
wax, it will become a thick,
rich honey in about four
days.
Once the bees have com-
pleted their work, Letvin
goes into action. He places
the honey, dripping from the
pale beeswax, in a large,
metal centrifuge. He spins it
around and around until the
honey separates from the
beeswax. At last, it is ready
to be eaten.
The laws of kashrut dic-
tate that any product from
an unclean creature is
unclean. Although the bee is
not kosher, the honey is. The
ancient rabbis allowed its
use because the bee merely
stores honey rather than ac-
tually producing it.
The flavor of the honey

depends upon the flowers
from which nectar is taken.
Among some of the popular
honeys are those made from
clover, alfalfa, goldenrod,
purple and white aster,
dandelions and starthistle,
which forms the base of Let-
yin's honey.
Letvin once tasted a honey
made from the locust flower.
"And boy, that's delicious,"
he says. "That's a beautiful
honey."
Letvin has sampled many
kinds of honey. Sugar,
however, is a substance he
won't even touch.
"Honey is so different from
sugar," he says. "Honey is
made with a fruit sugar, not
sucrose. It is much sweeter
so you use less. And you can
put honey on a burn and the
burn heals. You can't do that
with sugar."
Before they leave their
home, and when they are
preparing to exit a hive they
believe is on fire, the bees
feast on their honey. "They
never know where their next
meal is coming from," Let-
vin explains.
Once Letvin has collected
his honey, it's time to begin
closing the hive. His "I'm 7
almost 8-"year-old daughter,
Amelia, moves in for a last
look. Although ungarbed in
the beekeeper's outfit -- a
thick, white pant suit and a
heavy hat with a screen in
front -- Amelia is undaunted
by the swarm of bees slowly
finding their way back
home.
The bees probably believe
their troubles are over for
now. Yet Letvin says the in-
sects face any number of
problems throughout the
day. Bee diseases can spread
throughout the hive: At

