Rustler steals 40,000 bees in Britain's biggest hive heist in years

An experienced beekeeper is suspected of stealing 40,000 bees from Anglesey in one of Britain’s biggest bee rustling cases in years. Only someone with a bee suit and veil could have pulled off the heist on Paul Williams’s hive in Rhydwyn “without getting stung to smithereens”, police said. The miserably rainy summer could have ruined the thief’s own honey production and driven them to carry out the theft, one expert has suggested.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/11/rustler-steals-40000-bees-britains-biggest-hive-heist-anglesey?source=Snapzu