FAIR HILLÂ â The next time Bradford Luff teaches his beginning beekeeper class for Cecil Land Trust he's going to let his students in on a few secrets in advance.
"Don't wear black. The only natural enemy of the honeybee is the bear," Luff, vice president of the Susquehanna Beekeepers Association, said to his five students Saturday morning.
He added that wearing red is also not a good idea because the bees see it as black.
As each student donned the protective gear -- a long sleeved jacket complete with a screened in hood -- and gloves, Luff urged them to move slow so as not to antagonize the bees swarming in and out of a collection of hives on the property off Blake Road.