{"id":715390,"date":"2026-06-20T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715390\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:19:13","slug":"caught-on-camera-oklahoma-bear-knocks-over-bee-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715390\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught on camera: Oklahoma bear knocks over bee box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            CHEROKEE COUNTY, Okla &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>A trail camera in Cherokee County captured a black bear knocking over a bee box near Tahlequah earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The video, recorded Tuesday evening in Welling, shows the bear walking up to the box and pushing it over.<\/p>\n<p>The camera stopped recording shortly afterward, leaving what happened next unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Homeowners said they believe the bees likely chased the bear away because the camera never activated again.<\/p>\n<p>The couple spent several hours putting the bee box back together and said they are now considering installing an electric fence to protect against future visits from honey-seeking bears.<\/p>\n<p>They said the bear has not returned since the encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHEROKEE COUNTY, Okla &#8211; A trail camera in Cherokee County captured a black bear knocking over a bee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-715390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}