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Thousands of bees poisoned at Sequim farm

Nov 30, 2016, 12:04 PM

Hundreds of thousands of bees were poisoned at the Sequim Bee Farm and the keepers believe vandals are to blame.

Farm co-owner Meg Depew says about 20 of their hives were affected.

“When we went down to examine it, we found all the honey was still in there and there was no evidence of animal damage and we started looking at the other 20 hives, all of them had the tops ajar,” she told KIRO Radio. “This is some kind of vandalism.”

Depew says half of their hives were affected which will cost about $10,000 to replace.

But she says they aren’t asking for money, they are simply asking the vandals to stop killing the bees.

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