Over the weekend, someone set fire to two dozen bee colonies in Alvin, Texas belonging to the Brazoria County Beekeepers Association. The perpetrator also dumped some of the bee boxes into a nearby pond. The Beekepers Association and the police are offering rewards for information leading to the conviction of the idiot who did it. From KTRK-TV:
“We’re looking at 500,000 to 600,000 that have been destroyed out of that environment,” said (beekeeping supplier Steve Brackmann)…
“It takes a long time to establish a colony,” Brackmann said. “It can take a year to get a full one, but the queens were probably killed, which means those that survived have nowhere to go.”
One comment on Facebook referred to it as ecoterrorism, and Brackmann doesn’t disagree with that. Bee populations are dropping rapidly across the country because of insecticides and herbicides which take away the plants on which bees forage.
More at the Brazoria County Beekeepers Association’s Facebook page.
WTF kind of s#!t brick does something like that? That’s an affront to Nature and God’s creations as well as an assault on humanity. Whoever did this needs to be forced to wear beehive underpants. Let the bees mete out the justice.
‘ beehive underpants’…………….LOL
As the wife of a beekeeper (now mostly part time rescuing bees from houses or garages) and having been stung many times just by putting my fingers in the wrong place, I’d say likely one of these bastards got attacked by bees when he went up to one of these hives for the heck of it, then got his friends to help him “get revenge”…these days, folks don’t need much of an excuse to do evil things to God’s creation.
And, BTW, in Alvin and Brazoria County they have many many millions of bees…this area is extremely bountiful with bee pasture everywhere year-round. I’ve seen many hives there as well as in southern Harris County south of Houston and also Galveston County.
The more SHIT we let in, the more of this you’re going to hear about.
Didn’t this same thing happen a year or so ago???
Brazoria County home of Wilco Radio. County road 420
Do we need to tune into “Brazoria County home of Wilco Radio. County road 420” to find out what is going on Charlie?
Road 420…am I late to the joke…?
That is my address and location of the radio station 12500 cr 420 thanks Misty!
I’ve got a friend with a few hives
It’s a lot of work, and a lot of rules on how to manage them right
It’s not an easy job
Who ever did this needs to be caught
My friend has trail cameras trained on his , maybe these folks ought to think about a perimeter alarm and cameras , and a few loaded shotguns
I doubt it’s wetbacks…my guess is moronic teenagers who have no clue what they’ve done. Jacked up on energy drinks and venturing out from parent’s basement for the first time in weeks, they’re bored. Sharia law sounds good…hunt them down and stone them on pay-per-view. Little assholes. Kids today have no concept of accountability or consequences. I’ve got gray hair…I would NEVER have even thought about doing something like this! If I had gotten in trouble with the law, PLEASE PUT ME IN JAIL SO MY DAD CAN’T GET TO ME!!!!
The liberal hippies have changed it all now…no consequence. no remorse. and never, ever their fault.
Teenage wetbacks.
Had to be a product of the public school system.
Terrible, considering what the geo-engineers are doing to the environment as well as varoah mites and the rest, and that fact that when the “just in time delivery system” is disrupted and folks need sugar for their coffee or whatever, bees produce a sweetner that LASTS FOREVER–HONEY! (They found honey in clay pots thousands of years old in ancient Egyptian pyramids many years ago…raw honey, which lasts forever.) Processed “pure” honey, which is heated and destroys many nutrients, is worthless and must be used quickly. BUY ONLY RAW HONEY!
raw honey …way to go! yay! I have been using raw honey in place of refined sugar in recipes