{"id":32975,"date":"2025-07-02T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32975\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:04:08","slug":"young-black-bear-spotted-in-western-mn-might-have-stolen-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32975\/","title":{"rendered":"Young black bear spotted in western MN, might have stolen honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">The moment Carol Bauer heard there was a bear running around the farm fields near her home in western Minnesota, the woman known in the area as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carol.bauer.188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carol.bauer.188\">Grandma with a camera<\/a>\u201d grabbed her gear and got ready to go. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The yearling, which scampered into the woods, is the talk of Graceville, said Bauer, 60, whose photos from the sighting on June 16 have been shared more than 400 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">It\u2019s the first ursine visitor anyone can remember in Graceville, a town of 520 people three hours west of the Twin Cities on the South Dakota border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cWe just don\u2019t get that kind of excitement around here,\u201d Bauer said. <\/p>\n<p>A wild black bear was spotted in Graceville, a small rural town in western Minnesota, in imagery captured on June 16, 2025, by Carol Bauer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The community has been buzzing after some commercial beehives were tossed around, Bauer said, leading to speculation the visiting bear had gotten hungry for honey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Jonas Wollman, beekeeper for the Lismore Hutterite Colony, said he discovered something broke into his beehives on June 19, and he\u2019s fairly sure a bear is the culprit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Parts of a beehive were broken into pieces, and Wollman said he\u2019s missing frames with about 30 to 40 pounds worth of larva and a small amount of honey. He said he\u2019s now borrowed a range camera to watch his hives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moment Carol Bauer heard there was a bear running around the farm fields near her home in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-32975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114784492921172966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}