Justin and Tori Engelhardt, husband and wife beekeepers in Sioux City, Iowa, discovered a tragic surprise late last month when they went to check on their 50 beehives.
The hives — home to half a million bees — had been overturned and hacked apart. The couple’s supply shed had been ransacked.
The result was 500,000 dead bees and an estimated $60,000 in damaged property — a major setback for the Engelhardts and their 6-year-old honey business.
"They knocked over every single hive, killing all the bees. They wiped us out completely," Justin Engelhardt told The Sioux City Journal after the Dec. 27 vandalism. "They broke into our shed, they took all our equipment out and threw it out in the snow, smashed what they could."
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