“We’re looking at 500,000 to 600,000 that have been destroyed out of that environment,” said (beekeeping supplier Steve Brackmann)…

“It takes a long time to establish a colony,” Brackmann said. “It can take a year to get a full one, but the queens were probably killed, which means those that survived have nowhere to go.”

One comment on Facebook referred to it as ecoterrorism, and Brackmann doesn’t disagree with that. Bee populations are dropping rapidly across the country because of insecticides and herbicides which take away the plants on which bees forage.

More at the Brazoria County Beekeepers Association’s Facebook page.