Half a million bees killed in an attack on Dutch arson

The Dutch beekeeper talks about his shock after his 10 hives were burned in a park in the central city of Almere, with the loss of approximately half a million bees.

Harold Stringer said that every hive has a colony of 40-60,000 bees and the thought that anyone can kill them is terrifying.

“It really hurts that my 10 hives have died,” he told local television operator Omroep Flevoland.

Almere police, who sits east of Amsterdam, appealed to witnesses after the arson of arson on Tuesday night at the picturesque Beatrixpark in the city. They posted pictures of the fire on social media.

The Dutch government says that more than half of the 360 ​​species of bee in the country are at risk of extinction, since the bee population decreases worldwide.

Stringer told him that police had told him that an accelerator was used to burn hives sitting on pallets in the wooded part of the park.

Only one of the bees survived, and he said there was a little belief that the paleust would be caught.

Colleague beekeeper Helin Niman told Dutch radio that he has three bee colonies and wants to give him one of them.

For the Stringer, which takes care of bees for about nine years, the fire means starting a new colony in the park from scratch.

But he insists he will not give up.