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Backyard beekeepers

Amy Seidenwurm, left, and Russell Bates, in full beekeeping garb, check on their hive in the backyard of their Silver Lake home. The couple started keeping bees last September, and they consider the insects their pets.

Amy Seidenwurm, left, and Russell Bates, in full beekeeping garb, check on their hive in the backyard of their Silver Lake home. The couple started keeping bees last September, and they consider the insects their pets.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

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Amy Seidenwurm in full beekeeping garb, checks on a hive in the backyard of her
Silver Lake home. Seidenwurm and her husband started keeping bees last
September, and they consider the insects their pets.

Bottle of honey

A sample bottle of the honey produced in the backyard of Silver Lake residents Amy Seidenwurm and Russell Bates.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Honeybee close-up

A close-up of one of the 50,000 honeybees kept at the Silver Lake home of Amy Seidenwurm and Russell Bates.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Bees in comb

Amy Seidenwurm with some of her bees. Her husband, Russell Bates, says beekeeping in the city not only provides a pesticide-free environment for bees, but allows residents to delve deeper into organic living.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

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