Wellington - A New Zealand beekeeper has been stung by rustlers who stole more than a million of his honey producers in 28 hives from a farm paddock, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. John Tyler, of Matamata, 55 kilometres from Rotorua in the central North Island, said he was preparing to rent out the hives to orchardists to pollinate their kiwi fruit and then relocate them to collect valuable manuka honey.
He told the Matamata Chronicle that two men and a small truck would have been needed to move the hives, each weighing 25 kilograms and carrying 50,000 bees.
