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Honey thieves kill thousands of bees
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The news just came out, honey thieves broke into some hives at Toronto's Fort York apiary. They took some honey and left the bees exposed to the cold. Thousands have died.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0


Good thing the bee keepers check so often. They save some hives and a lot of bees.
But thousands are still dead. Smiley19

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

This article has a lot of good information. It seems that last year city council voted to designate Toronto as a Bee City.
We do at lot for bees here, wild and "domestic". There are many, many gardens private and public planted with bees in mind.


https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editoria...orial.html


The public response to the theft and in particular the death of the bees has been very strong. If the honey thieves are not very careful someone will turn them in. In other words, you better be able to prove where your honey came from. Mine all comes from very special hives all around Toronto.  If a neighbour has a sudden unexplained honey supply you might want to keep an eye on them. If they killed bees once they might be willing to do it again.

Sadly all these great wild honeys are available. You can just buy them and then no bees are hurt in the process.
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How cruel and thoughtless of those thieves.
How much honey did they get? And how much money would that be? It doesn't even seem massively profitable, to my way of thinking. They ought to have organised a jewel heist!

Poor bees. It is very sad that they left them to die of cold. Especially as bees have a hard enough time of it in this modern world.
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They didn't get a fortune in honey that's for sure. It wasn't worth it. Steal some honey from the store if you need to steal honey.
Interfering with the hives kills the bees. Those bees won't be around to produce honey next year.

If they wanted the wild honey it is for sale and it is not that expensive.
Honey of any kind is not that expensive.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...kBPm46mDPw

As you can see honey is available in Ontario. There are stores and they sell it at craft fairs. I have different kinds of special honey and various honey, bee pollen soaps.

There is just no need to vandalize hives.

I hope they catch the people who did this.
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