While their country cousins' populations collapse, bees in Paris are thriving as having a rooftop hive becomes de rigueur for hotels and restaurants seeking an in-house source of home-grown artisanal honey. According to the BBC, the urban bees are healthier and more productive than ones in rural France and they seem to like the City of Light for the same reason many people do: lots of good food."City people like flowers. We have parks, we have balconies, we have roadside verges, we have gardens -- and we are planting them all year round with lots of different species to ensure year-round colour,"
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/big-city-bees-healthier-more-productive.html
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