SIOUX CITY — Police delivered sweet news to the owners of a small Sioux City honey business Wednesday, nearly a month after vandals killed their half million bees and nearly wiped out their livelihood.
Wild Hill Honey owners Justin and Tori Englehardt went to check on their 50 hives on the morning of Dec. 28 and found them all destroyed, resulting in more than $60,000 in damage to the business.
The police department said Wednesday two boys, ages 12 and 13, have been arrested in connection with the incident, which drew ire from people across the country and garnered national and international media coverage. Because they were charged as juveniles, the suspects cannot be identified under state privacy law.
Englehardt thinks the story of Wild Hill resonated with so many people because people are becoming increasingly aware of much the honey bee population is struggling to survive. Some of the issues include rapid loss of their habitat, varroa mite, which feeds on honey bees, and the mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder.
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Dumbest vandalism I've ever heard of.
ReplyDeletemay be dumb but if the bees die we die.
ReplyDeleteI think an appropriate punishment would be to do to those kids what they did in the movie "Jackass".
ReplyDeleteLock them inside of a vehicle and toss an active beehive in through the sunroof.
And the environazis keep blaming the loss of bee hives on global Warming.
ReplyDeleteEverything is the fault of global warming
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ReplyDeletetrue, bees die off, we die off.
plus I eat honey instead of sugar with anything. even replace honey for sugar in cooking.
They came to school all swollen up the next day.
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