NEW YORK—An estimated 3 million bees and 45 hives were removed from a home in Queens by the NYPD and the New York Beekeeping Association Wednesday night.
“I’ve never seen anything as reckless as this is New York City,” said Andrew Coté, founder of the New York City Beekeepers Association. “Hives three feet from the egress of neighborhood buildings, on the ground, in shambles, diseased [bees], completely stripped of all of their honey, not just their excess honey, [and] unregistered.
“I hardly have the stomach for it,” Coté said.
The owner of the hives and the property is a native Chinese who speaks no English, but was once a beekeeper in China, according to a member of the beekeepers association.
