Even if you put on a beekeeping suit and climb 60 feet up into the forest canopy where bees like to nest, as Arndt did in 2018, “the most exciting stuff is happening inside the tree,” he says.

Question: About that 30-foot-tall tree standing inside uptown Normal’s Medici restaurant — where did it come from? Did they build the restaurant around it? What kind of tree is it? And ...