The Chicago O'Hare Airport ground crew is used to dealing with nature. They de-ice planes in the winter and roll over steaming hot runways in the summer.
As hearty Chicagoans, they felt ready for anything nature might send their way ā that is, until a swarm of honeybees decided to perch near a flight gate one sunny afternoon.
The crew mulled over a few ideas for dealing with the buzzing mass of bees, including spraying them with a hose or dousing them with pesticides. But before any of these ideas could be put into action, the Sweet Beginnings team arrived, scooping up the swarm and its queen bee and whisking it away to be installed in a new hive.
The Sweet Beginnings team maintains 75 beehives in a remote field on the O'Hare property.
The program was initially created as job training for individuals returning from incarceration or with other barriers to employment.
[For more of this story, written by John Mulrow, go to http://www.upworthy.com/theres...g-people-out-of-jail]
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