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Rule Botanica Hello! Rule Botanica is Tom & Kisitina Venegas. We started beekeeping March, 2021 in our back garden here in San Leandro, California.

We are in constant awe of these small but Mighty Pollinators!🌸🐝

05/21/2026

Pollinators at every garden if you look carefully. See how the bumblebee turns on each flower!🌺 🐝
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05/08/2026

A very timely hive check resulted in a new emerging queen bee!
She was placed in a newly queenless hive!!

03/30/2026

Swarms are ALWAYS an EPIC spectacle in the making and equally scintillating experience to be close to one, partially due to the most effective communication between thousands of bees acting as one unbreakable family. It’s nothing short of remarkable🤯
Taken on one of many swarm days last week.

03/29/2026

We may as well put on our bee suits on a.m to p.m these abnormally warm days! Every day of this week there’s been swarm activity and here’s swarm #5 (we think). Have to say it’s a true blessing to get new swarm of bees ❤️🐝🐝

03/27/2026

It’s always such a treat to hear the new Queen Bee piping announcing her glorious and praise worthy presence to her attentive colony! Plus it’s nothing short of amazing and adorable❤️

03/26/2026

We got that swarm!! They took to the bait hive and it is PACKED!!

03/25/2026

After much shaking, these amazing bees show their resilience and determination to stick to this tree for dear life! We will see later today if they think our bait hive is worthy of their presence!
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03/24/2026

Watch this SWARM DROP! There was no easy way for this swarm to be captured unless we had a bee vacuum!

03/24/2026

It is a Lovely Day for a Swarm!
Around this time of year my ears are super attentive and listening highly attuned to that wonderful mass buzzing sound of a lively swarm of bees. There’s nothing else quite like it 🐝🐝🐝❣️

Stay tuned for other parts of this video…

03/12/2026

Spotted a Valley Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa sonorina) or “golden carpenter bee” or “teddy bear bee” 🧸🐝💛.
This is a male, distinctly golden in color and very, very fuzzy, which makes them pretty much a flying teddy bear!!
They’re the largest bees found in California and the southwestern United States.
Even more lovable, they’re docile and can’t sting. They are important pollinators.

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