Here's the buzz: Omaha police officer single-handedly rounds up a gang of flying fugitives

Considering the bee kills in the US from chemicals, I'm glad this person made the call and they were saved.

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/here-s-the-buzz-omaha-police-officer-single-handedly-rounds/article_08198cce-de0c-5af0-8361-b91a1542faed.html

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014 1:00 AM
By Kevin Cole / World-Herald staff writer

It took just one unarmed cop to catch thousands of fugitives Monday in northwest Omaha.

A call went out to Officer Gary Kula of the Omaha Police Department when the Nebraska Humane Society received a request for help with a swarm of honeybees near 92nd and Spaulding Streets. The swarm, estimated by Kula at 5,000 bees, was camping around the front steps of a home.


Gary Kula wore just a T-shirt and shorts to herd the honeybees. He brought along a new hive box and moved the worker bees in by hand. Once the queen goes into the hive, her workers quickly follow. Kula left the hive out until just before dark so any scouts or workers would find their way to the new home.


Fortunately, Mark Langan, the Humane Society’s vice president of field operations, knew that Kula kept bees because the two had worked together at the Police Department. By happenstance, the old friends met two weeks ago to discuss a protocol for dealing with swarming bees.

“Gary was one of the most dependable guys in the Police Department and, 10 years later, things haven’t changed,” Langan said. “In my 10 years at the Humane Society, we had never had a call about bees before this, but we were ready.”

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