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Trail cameras capture hungry black bear eating honey from family's beehive in Oak Grove, Minnesota

Updated  April 6, 2020 4:35pm CDT
Minnesota
FOX 9

Bear damages beehive in Oak Grove, Minnesota

A black bear turns out to be the culprit damaging a beehive in Oak Grove, Minnesota. Credit: Daine Randall

OAK GROVE, Minn. (FOX 9) - A family in Oak Grove, Minnesota has finally caught their "beehive bandit" - a hungry black bear.

Sunday night, trail cameras caught a black bear damaging a beehive on a private property not far from the Rum River Regional Park. According to the family, the beehive had been damaged on a nightly basis.

Black bear damages beehives in Oak Grove, Minnesota

A black bear is caught on camera damaging beehives in Oak Grove, Minnesota.

The family said that "Winnie, the honey thief," has now been reported to officials.

According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota’s black bear range has been slowly expanding southward and westward.

The DNR is trying to better document this expansion, so if you see a black bear outside of its primary range, please report the information here.