{"id":8557,"date":"2022-11-04T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=8557"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:46:19","slug":"a-durham-moment-watch-them-waggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2022\/11\/04\/a-durham-moment-watch-them-waggle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Durham moment: &#8220;Watch them waggle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe loved the bees,\u201d John Replogle, former CEO of Burt\u2019s Bees, recalls of Burt Shavitz, the company\u2019s founder. \u201cJust the idea that there was an order and a hive\u2026 and kind of this beautiful codependence.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shavitz converted his farmhouse into a home and raised his bees nearby. After he died, his rustic cabin was moved from Guilford, Maine to the company&#8217;s Durham headquarters, where it now sits like a museum exhibit devoted to his simple life. Peek through its windows and you see little more than a rocking chair, an old-school wood-burning stove and an old-school thermometer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His bees are nearby, demonstrating the order that Shavitz loved. Roughly 25 feet away from the home, a large, metal sliding door rests against the brick Burt\u2019s Bees headquarters. On this day, a family of five \u2013 a UNC student, her father, mother, cousin and uncle \u2013\u00a0 are surprised when the student slides open the door, revealing a rectangular hive packed with thousands of tiny striped creatures, each squirming with an unspoken intention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The family members search for her royal highness, the queen, identifiable by her impressive size and a belly marking. They give up after a minute and head back to the car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The large plaque beside the hive is adorned with pictures of a heavily bearded Burt and a blurb that reads, \u201cwatch them waggle.\u201d Waggling, according to the plaque, is the dance the bees perform to pass information throughout the hive. The sign also includes descriptions of the queen, worker bees and the drones (the horny male bees that make sure the hive has a next generation.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The location of the beehive \u2013 outside a corporate headquarters \u2013 seems odd at first. But the whole place is quirky. Burt\u2019s Bees is housed in Durham\u2019s American Tobacco Campus, a former tobacco processing plant that is now home to restaurants, an advertising agency and a public radio station. The office for Burt\u2019s Bees, a company that makes cosmetics and skin care products, is decorated with an enormous mural of a honeycomb, sunflowers, and mammoth bees. The building is surrounded by trickling waterfalls and a basketball court filled with students at recess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A professional beekeeper, Harrison Bolton from Bee Downtown, a company that helps corporations install and maintain hives, provides more details on the \u201cwaggle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I ask, \u201cWhat are all of them trying to accomplish when they\u2019re squirming around in there?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He chuckles at my non-scientific lingo. \u201cThey respond to stimuli in the environment to achieve a specific task.\u201d These tasks are age-dependent, except for the queen, who has one duty: to lay an egg. The worker bees do the rest. \u201cYou ever see the mitosis thing where the two cells kinda do that?\u201d He makes a mega-fist with his two hands wrapped around each other, and pulls them apart with a snapping noise,\u00a0 turning them back into two individual fists. \u201cThey kinda do the same thing \u2013 a queen lays an egg that makes another queen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is this humane? Is it unethical to trap bees behind a glass window?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bolton says the species is adaptable enough to overcome challenging circumstances. In fact, life in the American Tobacco Campus may even be ideal. The size and location of the hive are good for the bees, with a clear tube that leads to the outside world, allowing foragers to come and go as they search for food. According to Bolton, the company\u2019s observation hive gives people a comfortable \u201cveil\u201d through which to observe the bees without being afraid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the bottom of the plaque, visitors are reminded, \u201cPlant bee-friendly gardens. Buy local honey. Buy local &amp; organic. Spread the word.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo at top: The Burt&#8217;s Bees bees. 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