Several years back I had 170 hives pollinating squash.
One of the sets of hives were WAY, WAY back in the field at the edge of forest land.
I remember thinking when I delivered them about how safe these hives were, so far away from people.
When the day came to retrieve the hives, something caught my eye.
It was so unusual that it did not immediatly register.
"Why are there chunks of wood missing from these hives?"
Well, then it sunk in; some knucklehead had shot up this group of hives.
And they were not aiming at the hand holds or any thing else; they just blazed away.
Here is a picture of some that I had just boomed onto my truck:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Shallotman/DSC00377.jpg
The bees made it through just fine, but I had to replace quite a few frames in the next year.
