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The vandalism extends to backyard beekeepers as well. Earlier this summer Michael Schwartz, a newbie beekeeper in Altadena, Calif., lost the roughly 10,000 bees inside three hives that he kept on the roof of his garage. He believes someone scaled his garage and sprayed something — a pesticide, maybe, or even something like oven cleaner — into the hives. “The bees would come out of the hive and then just fly in circles” until they stopped moving, he says.
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