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Ian and Chelsea Elementary student first check out the bee-filled tree.
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Leaf (front) and Ian Bellaar-Spruyt cut a hole in the tree.
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Ian Bellaar-Spruyt uses smoke to make the bees more docile. Low Down photo by Mark Burgess
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The tree at Chelsea Elementary was home to about 30,000 bees.
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Ian Bellaar-Spruyt points to a comb inside a tree at Chelsea Elementary.
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Leaf (front) and Ian Bellaar-Spruyt extracting honeycombs. Low Down photo by Mark Burgess
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Ian uses his bare hands to hand over the bees and honeycomb.
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Leaf (right) and Ian Bellaar-Spruyt extracting honeycombs.
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Ian Bellaar-Spruyt holds a honeycomb he extracted from a tree.