The City Council on Wednesday will hear a proposal to make it easier for residents to raise honeybees. Read more.

Eileen Murphy decorated a mum plant for Halloween with "spider web fluff" and a fake spider. But then a poor bee got tangled. She reports:

Needed sewing machine tweezers, decoupage scissors & most tiny crochet hook to remove all the fluff from very angry bee. No more fluff from me.

No doubt by now the North End is buzzing about this 311 complaint about a swarm of bees taking over a fence pole at Fleet Street and Webster Place this afternoon.

Earlier:
Bees swarming the back of a car in Dorchester.

The BU News Service surveys the state of urban beekeeping in the Boston area, notes the increased vitality of our local bees:

Hives in Cambridge and Boston have a higher honey productivity rate than rural bees, producing about 30% more honey. City bees are also more likely to survive the winter. Scientists are still speculating why urban bees show increased resilience and productivity - perhaps their success is due to less pesticide use, more varied diets and an urban heat-island effect that keeps bees warmer during cold winter months.

Cambridge Day reports on a honey of a battle between a temple that has bee hives and neighbors who swarmed city officials with complaints. The temple's rabbi said she was stung by criticism over the bees, which one irate resident compared to "livestock." Naturally, in a city that once set up a Peace Commission, the chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals urged the two sides to try to hug it out before getting his board involved.

Mel Barrett reports a dangerous situation on Hudson Street: A swarm of bees just swarming like nobody's business.

They surrounded our car. BE CAREFUL.

Last year:
Uphams Corner was buzzing.

UPDATE: Late this afternoon, Best Bees worked with city animal control to relocate the bees someplace better for them - and people.

You can't see the license plate of this car at Stoughton and Sumner streets because IT'S COVERED IN BEES. Live bees. Bees that are probably looking for a more permanent place to live. Like your attic. Photo by OffTheDot, who says:

Definitely live and buzzing! Seemed more into swarming than attacking. Stood on edge of swarm without incident (and no sudden movements).

The Herald buzzes about the growth of urban beekeeping.

Go figure: Mike Ball educates us that his local beekeeper (what, you don't have one?), Mike Graney, sells hundreds of pounds of honey a year from hives he keeps near the Neponset River. Graney and his bees (and their knees), will be at the Boston Natural Areas Network's fall harvest festival at 30 Edgewater Dr. in Mattapan this Saturday, Sept. 15, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

... He says that the hosts will have the hats and netting for those of us who just have to handle the honey makers and their comb frames. ...