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Rafael Gracia of Nogales, dressed in a full white bodysuit and wearing protective gloves and a veil, lit a beehive smoker and began dispersing thin clouds of smoke into one of his beehives at an Amado property during the cold Saturday morning of Dec. 12.
He lifted the lid off the wooden beehive box, carefully pulled out a frame containing dozens of honey combs on both sides, and began looking to see which had been filled with honey and which ones were still empty.