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Police Remove 80,000 Bees From Jesús María Home After Swarm Attack

The colonies were secured at a Puente Piedra refuge for supervised care before relocation to rural northern Lima.

Overview

  • Environmental police officers worked with an apiculturist and Serfor representatives to extract two domestically kept hives from the property.
  • Specialists used smoke to calm the insects and transported the boxes by vehicle to a temporary shelter.
  • Each hive held roughly 40,000 bees, according to apiculturist Alfredo Santiago, requiring specialized handling to avoid new incidents.
  • Police official Carlos Aguilar said the hives were maintained in an unauthorized urban space, underscoring regulatory prohibitions on city beekeeping.
  • The property owner rejected a municipal fine of more than S/2,600, while the injured young woman received medical care after multiple stings with no severity reported.