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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's the buzz: Omaha police officer single-handedly rounds up a gang of flying fugitives
Considering the bee kills in the US from chemicals, I'm glad this person made the call and they were saved.
http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/here-s-the-buzz-omaha-police-officer-single-handedly-rounds/article_08198cce-de0c-5af0-8361-b91a1542faed.html
POSTED: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014 1:00 AM
By Kevin Cole / World-Herald staff writer
It took just one unarmed cop to catch thousands of fugitives Monday in northwest Omaha.
A call went out to Officer Gary Kula of the Omaha Police Department when the Nebraska Humane Society received a request for help with a swarm of honeybees near 92nd and Spaulding Streets. The swarm, estimated by Kula at 5,000 bees, was camping around the front steps of a home.
Gary Kula wore just a T-shirt and shorts to herd the honeybees. He brought along a new hive box and moved the worker bees in by hand. Once the queen goes into the hive, her workers quickly follow. Kula left the hive out until just before dark so any scouts or workers would find their way to the new home.
Fortunately, Mark Langan, the Humane Societys vice president of field operations, knew that Kula kept bees because the two had worked together at the Police Department. By happenstance, the old friends met two weeks ago to discuss a protocol for dealing with swarming bees.
Gary was one of the most dependable guys in the Police Department and, 10 years later, things havent changed, Langan said. In my 10 years at the Humane Society, we had never had a call about bees before this, but we were ready.
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Here's the buzz: Omaha police officer single-handedly rounds up a gang of flying fugitives (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jun 2014
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malaise
(269,237 posts)1. An amazing story
Well done
newfie11
(8,159 posts)2. We had a swarm show up last year
At our farm near Gering, NE.
Called the extension service and they gave us the number of a bee keeper.
He left boxes overnight and picked up the bees the following day.
He estimated there were 30,000 bees.
Where they came from we will never know.
We got a jar of honey from him too.
Omaha Steve
(99,817 posts)3. Kick
Omaha Steve
(99,817 posts)4. Kick