USA Today
October 9, 2017
North Fort Myers beekeeper Allen Walker moved some of his bees from Pine Island to Fort Myers in anticipation of Hurricane Irma, but when the storm shifted inland he ended up losing 85 of the relocated hives to flood waters.
Irma's floodwaters also destroyed more than 600 Southwest Florida hives belonging to Cape Coral beekeeper Keith Councell's operations, a loss he pegged at about $300,000.
Walker's and Councell's losses and that of other Florida beekeepers contributed to what agricultural officials said amounted to 7,500 hives lost from the flooding brought by Irma in September.
