Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The great Astoria bee invasion


From DNA Info:

A quiet Astoria street was briefly shut down Friday by a huge swarm of bees.

The swarm contained two groups of bees, each with roughly 10,000 of the flying insects, officials said. One group buzzed out of their hive in a tree along 35th Street, while the second covered a decorative lion at the entrance gate to a home at 24-21 35th Street, near Astoria Blvd.

Police removed the bees, which will be taken to a hive in Connecticut.

Still, some residents were unsatisfied. They want the branch where the hive where the queen bee still lives to be cut down.

3 comments:

KG2V said...

The queen no longer lives there - the Queen swarms WITH the hive. Now the old hive (with the old queen) MAY still be in a local tree, but

Anonymous said...

Hipsters and their retarded urban rooftop bee hives in Astoria.

Something like this happened in lower manhattan recently, like 3 weeks ago.

Anonymous said...

I guess it was true - everyone does want to hang out in Astoria.

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