Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe May 28 (UPI) -- Police in New York said thousands of bees were relocated from just outside an Urban Outfitters store in Manhattan on the same day that a massive swarm appeared on the side of a Queens building. The New York Police Department's bee keepers were called to the urban outfitters store about 4:30 p.m. Monday to vacuum up about 8,000 bees that swarmed around a planter and posed a hazard to shoppers and pedestrians. Advertisement The department said the bees were removed on the same day that a swarm of about 20,000 bees was removed from the side of a building in the Sunnyside neighborhood in Queens. "We're in the midst of swarm season, so please [be] on the lookout for swarms," the department tweeted. @NYPD108Pct @NYPDChiefPatrol @NYPDChiefofDept @NYPD104Pct 20k bees safely removed from a building hindering pedestrians from walking on the sidewalk. It's definitely swarm season in NYC. pic.twitter.com/CuWJ00KA07— NYPD Bees (@NYPDBees) May 27, 2019 Read More Spanish couple discovers 80,000 bees in their bedroom wall Doctors find four bees living under woman's eyelid Beekeeper called to remove thousands of bees from car
