This week we had the first storm of the season with buckets of rain and pretty high winds. I had to go up to Santa Clara for work the next day and while walking from the office to the hotel I found the remains of a bee hive on the ground with no bees in sight.
The pictures were taken at dusk with my phone so they aren't the greatest quality but you can still see the freshly drawn comb, brood and honey if you click them to enlarge.
The thing that struck me is that bees are everywhere and that it is preposterous to restrict people from keeping them in their backyards.
In the picture above you can see a snail eating either brood or honey from the comb.
The pieces were all sitting in or around a driveway so my guess is that they are all squashed flat by now.
