{"id":186982,"date":"2026-05-08T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186982\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:03:50","slug":"watch-neighbors-discover-bees-living-in-philadelphia-sewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186982\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Neighbors discover bees living in Philadelphia sewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 7 (UPI) — A Pennsylvania beekeeper is in the process of attempting to rescue a hive that took up residence in an unusual location: a Philadelphia sewer.<\/p>\n

Resident Thom Duffy said the bees have been living underneath a parking space on Lambert Street for about two or three weeks, leading neighbors to block off the space to prevent cars from being swarmed and people being stung.\n<\/p>\n

Mark Berman of Anna Bees Honey was notified of the situation by local residents and installed a device designed to coax the bees out of the sewer and into a box for safe transport. He said lifting the sewer cover would not be advisable, as it could cause the hive to become aggressive.<\/p>\n

He said it was the first time he has seen bees living in a sewer.<\/p>\n

“It is kinda weird,” Berman told WPVI-TV.<\/a><\/p>\n

Berman, who estimated the hive could include up to 10,000 bees, said the process of evacuating them from the sewer could take weeks.<\/p>\n

“We had fun thinking of names for sewer honey, but the truth is, any honey wouldn’t be coming from the sewer,” Berman wrote on social media<\/a>. “If I’m successful in getting the bees to relocate into the trap box, they would build new comb and produce fresh honey.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 7 (UPI) — A Pennsylvania beekeeper is in the process of attempting to rescue a hive that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2600,8773,18228,69,71,70,18229],"class_list":["post-186982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}