A black bear made a beeline for honey-filled hives in Rockville
What’s the best way to let a bear know you’re human? Identify the squares in a grid that have a traffic light?“It’s never going to happen,” Scott told her. “He’s got to cross too many busy roads.”That was Friday night, a little after dusk, when a banging came from outside the house. Scott happened to be out of town on a trip. When Chaula looked the next morning, it was clear that something had attacked one of their four hives.
“The bees started in 2020, right before the pandemic,” he told me. “I'd gone through a class to learn how to become a beekeeper. I thought it would be a fun little project. When the world shut down, it became a great diversion.” “I think that’s where the years of working with bees really helped out,” Scott said. “You’re walking into an angry cloud of bees: I can calm you down and work with you.”On Sunday afternoon, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources brought a bear trap. You knew it was a bear trap because it had “DANGER BEAR TRAP” written in white on the green contraption. It looked like a length of corrugated culvert pipe, sealed on one end with a mesh screen and affixed with a door on the other.
DNR’s bear team keeps a freezer full of doughnuts just for bear calls. The molasses and vanilla put off a strong scent.“Then pretty much for the next six hours we’re hearing the bear trying to get out of the trap,” Scott said. “It was pretty darn noisy. It made one heck of a racket.”DNR drove the bear — a 140-pound male — to the far northwest corner of Montgomery County. They tranquilized the bear while it was in the trap, removed it, then took measurements and samples, including DNA.
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