What Lance Davis, the most famous in the bees in America and Indian tennis loyalty, did, after that

Palm Desert, California – It is a wet gray morning in the desert and Lance Davis, the most famous bee mask in the country, a little strange. He sits in his office on the rear of an industrial complex in the center of the Kochilla Valley, without bees, no honey, no work or money.

There is rain in expectations throughout the afternoon. Davis equipment, which is a “ghostbusters” vacuum-similar to raising swarms of bees without killing them and allowing him to transport them to his 35-mile weapon, cannot work in wet.

He is the man who saved Indian Wells last year, when the bee invading descended on the spider camera over one field during the quarter -finals Carlos Alcaraz against Alexander Zverev. The bees go to the bright pink color of the terrifying Alcaraz group; He was affected twice and did not want to resume playing when Davis did his work, because he could still see the bees wandering.

Do not bear the thinking of the cycle that the life of Alcaraz could take if Davis did not break, and protect without a bee, to save today.

Unlikely tennis fame is not all that is about 65 -year -old Davis. He had something to bees since he was a teenager in Colorado in the 1970s. Some children are connected to chlinette or lacrox. Davis got the connection of 4-H club, a youth development program where he learned about all agricultural things, including bees.

“It is a matter of emotion,” Davis says.

“Your feelings are important for how to treat you bees. If you are afraid and nervous, it is likely to attack you, just because they know that they can intimidate you to move away faster. Not all of them will attack you, only a few.”

He temporarily stops for a moment, thinks about how to transfer the comfort he finds in a swarm. How to crawl under a car or to an incision full of thousands of bees without a protective suit, before it appears without a bite. Sometimes these bees are honey bees. At other times, the bees are bad killer, which can be dangerously aggressive.

He said, “It seems as if you were carrying a new baby for the first time.” “Hello, it is good to see you. Let’s work with this, let’s achieve this.”

His comrades revive with a swelling of the lading smoke to throw them from their game. Then he empties them, enters them into a pregnancy cage, think about the next batch of honey that he will collect. Sometimes, he will get rid of some comb and give it to the owner of the property who called for his help.

About 45 years ago, he got 40 ankle ankle ankles like soft ball. A doctor told him that it is better to find another line of work or that he would die.

“I said,” I don’t know, I love bees. “So I kept doing it and doing it.”

A year after this afternoon in Indian Wales, Lance Davis legend continues to appear. It is useful to resemble the elderly jewel operator in the rock music band in the seventies of the last century, which had one song through women’s albums, with his brown hair along the shoulder and permanent tan. On Saturday, he was on the network for a modified coin before the Alcaraz opening match against Queen Hallis. While he was walking on the ground, the fans kept having to take selfies. Now they appear to the Alcaraz women who wear bee fashion, which the caramels have caught in his star game against Dennis Shapovalov on Monday evening.

“During the entire first group, I was looking at them and laughing, and I always say that when I laugh, when I enjoyed the field, I showed good tennis,” said Alcaraz after putting a clinic to overcome Shabovovalov 6-2, 6-4.

“I took a personal photo with them in the end, because I think they deserve it.”

Like Al -Karaz, who won the title of last year after his interrogation, Davis is hardly surprising. He calls for Indian Wales and employees in two large music festivals in the California Desert: Kochilla, which hosts some of the world’s largest works, and the Stagecoach Festival. Both are running in Empire Polo Club below the road in Indio. He sailing the club in the golf cart. Sometimes the collection of beehives disappears with a few thousand bees; He says he encountered swarms with up to 50,000.

This is largely eaten in April, when life begins to be dangerous for Davis. Cochlla Valley does not go to sleep for 50 weeks until the tennis championships in Indian Wales returns. The area of ​​the area, which is separated during the saturated summer, is about 500,000 people. It is full of resorts, golf courses and luxury homes.

These characteristics are packed with vegetarian life and flower sugar. These flowers are filled with bees, which love them much more than industrial farms outside the population centers. Industrial farmers use pesticides. Do not do resorts and homeowners in general, at least not on flowers and trees, and this helps to keep Davis busy from sunrise to sunset and sometimes in the evening. Even a 17 -foot cell was taken from the roof of a local hospital.

Perhaps tennis fans, Alcaraz and Bees only did Davis last year, but a few years ago, I heard Wayne Beige, a TV producer, and believed that he might have discovered the next Steve Irwin, the late Australian Zukper who became famous as a crocodile hunter.

Page in Davis participated and created and designed a 13 -episode TV series, “The Killer Bee Catcher”, which was broadcast on Earthtv, Cable Channel, since 2023. When Davis had turned into his stars in Indian Wales last year, the series began to find a broader audience.

“There is a great factor about him,” said Big about Davis. “He is just a strange person, but it is not strange. Like, I want to get a beer (with him). Many people in this strange world are also a kind of separation as well. Like snake treatments in the Gulf. They are somewhat there.”

Davis has his moments. Poetic wax can around the embrace with deadly bees. Juan Carlos Ferrero, Alcaraz coach, has long forgotten. As much as he sees it, it is the reason that the cargo prevailed in Indian Wales last year.

Davis said he spoke to Alcaraz after he finished his work, and the Spanish young man told the court that was safe. Alcaraz did not want to play. Two bee stings will do that. Davis told him that the sun was declining and the air was cool. Often the bees do not fly at 57 degrees.

In addition, the bees had mocked the court because they were looking for their queen; The vibrations of the spider camera have thrown out of the path. Davis said he had a queen in the cage, and now all the bees were wandering in the cage.

Davis said that he smells the Queen’s smell there, so you are clear here. “” Go there, focus, continue focusing and winning. “

He did more. “He won the entire championship!” Davis chanted. Honey, money and everything.

(The upper image of Lance Defis: Mark C. Terril / Associated Press)