From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-573234-912722
NEW YORK (UPI) -- Police in New York said a swarm of 8,000 to 10,000
bees was relocated from a residential neighborhood to a Connecticut
farm.
Officer Anthony Planakis, who has served as the resident beekeeper for
the New York Police Department for 30 years, described the inhabitants
of the hive on the Upper East Side as "one of the biggest swarms I
have ever seen," the New York Post reported.
Police said the bees moved into a giant hive in the neighborhood at
some point in the past month and were't spotted until the queen took
her subjects for an outing at 4 p.m. Sunday.
"It was a 3-foot column of bees," resident Doug Becker, 40, said.
Planakis said the bees were captured and were en route Sunday "to a
farm in Connecticut to pollinate."