ELLENBURG CENTER, NY (WRGB) — Police in northern New York are investigating an arson that destroyed the home of more than one million bees.
Police say on Wednesday night, sheds housing bees in Ellenburg Center-- that's just west of Plattsburgh -- were set on fire.
State police found kerosene or diesel oil when they arrived on the scene.
The owner, Stuart King, noticed the flames in enough time and managed to dump enough standing rainwater from nearby buckets to put out the fire on one shed.
https://cnycentral.com/news/local/arsonist-destroys-north-country-hives-killing-half-a-million-bees
Please remember, 0.5 m bees sounds horrible on news and spreads FUD and FF. However, my neighbor down the road has that many bees just to himself (local honey grower). If you look at one rural county, that is a drop in the bucket, so to speak.
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This is just like when they killed 10 m chickens "because of bird flu" to justify chicken & egg prices up 2-5x normal. Sounds huge until you realize the replacement cycle for that many is only 6-8 weeks, and 1 bird barn holds up to 500,000 chickens, and one farm can have 4-12 barns, and a rural area can have hundreds of farms.....
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Wag the dog.
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I wish you Cool Runnings, man. Do you know what that means?