Milan gets buzzier with bees in designer hives

Beekeeper Francesco Capoano moves a frame from a hive at an apiary in Milan, Italy (Luca Bruno/AP)

Italy’s financial and fashion capital Milan has got a little buzzier with a project that mixes biodiversity with art.

A bee collective has introduced 17 new colonies to new designer hives, bringing to one million the city’s population of honeybees cultivated by the Urban Beehives project.