Bunny not boney!
Posted on 01/17/2018 12:44:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
A bee killer toppled 100 beehives in Prunedale and sprayed hundreds of thousands of honey bees with gasoline over the weekend.
The honey bees were being kept on Mike Hickenbottom's Prunedale property along Eacho Valley Road during the winter. The bees are owned by a man who lives in the Central Valley, where it's too cold during winter months, and they like feeding from eucalyptus trees that flower on the Central Coast during this time of year.
Advertisement Hickenbottom believes his neighbors were behind the incident, partially because they had complained to him three times.
The bees are allowed to fly freely around the property, and Hickenbottom's neighbors said their children were too scared to go outside.
Hickenbottom said the Italian and Russian honey bees are not aggressive.
"I go up around the bee boxes without any protective clothing on. I've never been stung," he said.
Beekeeper Alfonzo Perez KSBW Beekeeper Alfonzo Perez The vandals struck sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday.
"Somebody came here, and tipped over all the boxes, and sprayed them with diesel fuel. It killed a whole bunch of bees," beekeeper Alfonzo Perez.
An estimated 200,000 bees died.
Perez leases the hives to pollinate almond trees growing on farms across Californian.
The bee killing cost Perez more than $50,000, a huge chunk of his annual salary.
"I just feel really bad for Alfonzo because he work so hard to support his family. Then somebody goes and does something like this," Hickenbottom said.
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A police report was filed with the Monterey County Sheriff's Office. No arrests have been made.
Bees are good for gardens. Very good.
Whoever did this needs to spend a decade behind bars learning about the birds and the bees.
Well, they’re boney boney bo-bo-ney
Bo-na-na fanna, fo-fo-ney
Fee fi mo-mo-ney, boney
Whoever did this needs to be prosecuted as a domestic terrorist.
That would make them bonney bees.
Now I've seen some of those.........
Bunny not boney!
I'd like to hear the full story. In any case, destroying private property is wrong, and not the way to settle civil disputes.
Well, those certainly are the bees’ knees, aren’t they? :=)
What makes them boney bees?.....I heard they can’t fly during mating season and walk around with an erection. I could be wrong.
“The bees are allowed to fly freely around the property”
Allowed? How does one corral them so they only fly with permission?
Well it’s a darn good life
And it’s kinda funny
How the Lord made the bee
And the bee made the honey
And the honeybee lookin’ for a home
And they called it honeycomb
And they roamed the world and they gathered all
Of the honeycomb into one sweet ball
And the honeycomb from a million trips
Made my baby’s lips
Oh, Honeycomb, won’t you be my baby
Well, Honeycomb, be my own
Got a hank o’ hair and a piece o’ bone
And made a walkin’ talkin’ Honeycomb
Well, Honeycomb, won’t you be my baby
Well, Honeycomb, be my own
What a darn good life
When you got a wife like Honeycomb
I agree. Just malicious.
Well, in this instance it is way worse than the article says.
The bees are used to pollinate so in a very real sense the criminals possibly killed off large crops and food for wait for it....Humans.
They should be held on a felony.
She’ll fetch a high bride price.
You put little VHF sets on them ... make them file flight plans with the FAA ... maintain contact with ATC. You know, some of them get into controlled airspace.
Dang ol Boney Bee’s!
I have 3 hives in the back yard and my bees know not to go outside the fence and all my neighbors have been told this so if they get stung it was not one of my bees that did it.
This is just like some one coming into your place of business and trashing the place and spraying diesel fuel all over the walls of your business. Bees are this mans way of feeding his family. The perpetrator needs to be jailed.
...she’s as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
Sorry couldn’t resist...
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