About an hour after police put out a notice on social media, several beekeepers were in touch with police offering to help.
Beekeeper Mike Osborne looks for the queen bee
By about 9.15am, police said most of the five million bees had been safely collected and the crates were being hauled away.A colony of honeybees in summer has about 50,000 to 80,000 bees, according to the Canadian Honey Council, a national association of beekeepers.
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