Bee vandals have struck again, this time at the Grateful Acres Farm northeast of Des Moines, Iowa. Last week, farmer Jake Knutson discovered that someone had trashed three of his strongest hives with cinder blocks, logs, and bricks, causing him to lose tens of thousands of bees and 150 pounds of honey. The vandalism allowed bees from nearby farms to steal the honey from exposed containers, and it also left Knutson’s insects to die in the rain. During the past year, hive vandalism has made news...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/bee-hive-vandalism-in-iowa-kills-tens-of-thousands-of-honeybees
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