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Buzz kill: Bee colony destroyed at park: Firefighters destroy a colony of 30,000 bees in a North Miami park, quashing a potentially fatal hazard to the community.

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| January 11, 2007 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Evan S. Benn

Jan. 11--The joggers and picnickers at Arch Creek Park saw beehives -- one taller than a human -- growing in the trunks of oak trees. Thousands of buzzing, swarming bees hovered nearby inside the county-owned park in North Miami. Officials closed the park Monday and were waiting for the right weather conditions to attack and destroy the bee colony.

Wednesday night, under the cover of dusk, the bee hunters struck. About 20 Miami-Dade firefighters donned protective suits, doused the beehives in a bee-suffocating foam, and hacked up the hives with their axes. "There were about 30,000 bees in there, and another 20 or 30 pounds of…

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