You know times are hard when thieves are stealing research bees.  It may make sense, though, since in the modern world stealing money is hard - no one carries money - and you'd have to be an elite computer hacker to get anything from a bank.

Bees, on the other hand, especially research bees, are not so difficult, and so several thousand British black bees were stolen from a medical school in Dundee.   The bees were part of a project studying the effect of pesticides on bee learning.   Chris Connolly, the lead researcher of the project said the bees are "very unique" and should be easy to identify if they are sold.  What does that mean?  Do they have human heads?

He speculates the bees were stolen for breeding or for sale to specialist bee-keepers.   "Clearly whoever did this knows what they were doing and how to handle bees."