NYPD removes 15,000 honey bees from tree in Queens
NEW YORK -- Police in Queens found themselves on bee patrol Sunday.
They responded to call for a colony of bees spotted on a tree on 166th Street in northern Queens.
— NYPD Bees (@NYPDBees) May 16, 2022
An NYPD bee keeper suited up and removed about 15,000 honey bees nesting inside. He even managed to capture footage of the bees inside the tree using a fiber-optic camera.
No one was injured and, according to police, the bees were relocated to a farm upstate.
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