CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- When the smoke clears in his backyard, Michael Entrekin learns to be a better human by simply watching nature.

“If I need motivation, I just go watch the bees and how much they’re always doing something,” he tells Queen City News.

Honeybees constantly work for the greater good.

“That’s a pretty nice Queen,” he said, showing us one of the million or so bees he nurtures locally.

Last September, Hurricane Helene washed out many queens and their colonies. In western North Carolina, an estimated 1,000 colonies were lost.

“All of the things that they would normally forage on were eliminated,” says Entrekin. “Trees, vegetation, all that stuff was wiped away.”

As the vice president of the Mecklenburg County Beekeepers Association, he follows the example o

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