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Police beekeeper removes swarm of 10K bees from NYC's Times Square
Published July 21, 2021
An NYPD beekeeper removed about 10,000 bees that flew into a Times Square recycling receptacle on Tuesday — two weeks after a larger swarm visited the same area.
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The bees were captured by Officer Darren Mays at about 2 p.m. outside of 3 Times Square, according to the NYPD.
Photos posted to the department’s Twitter page shows some of the insects even made their way into a Pepsi can.
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On July 6, Officer Mays was also dispatched to the Crossroads of the World to remove roughly 25,000 bees, police said.
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The first swarm was subsequently driven up to and released in the Hudson Valley, according to a Twitter post from the NYPD beekeepers.
This story first appeared in the New York Post.
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