Meet Det. Higgins, NYPD's Official Beekeeper

By SIMONE WILSON (Patch Staff)

Where has this NYC hero been hiding?

Det. Daniel Higgins, the ”official NYPD beekeeper,” just opened a Twitter account yesterday afternoon, geniously handled @NYPDbees. And for a professional beekeeper, he’s really got this social-media thing down.

Higgins has already Tweeted photos and videos from nine different bee emergencies.

For example, on June 30, he remembers extracting a “feral hive and swarm” from a Brooklyn tree knob. And before that, on June 24, he captured 30,000 bees that had gathered in a Manhattan street meridian.

Rooftops, crosswalk signs, sidewalks, MTA construction sites — no bee hideout is too tricky for Det. Higgins.

Check him out:

We’ve reached out to Det. Higgins for comment. But mostly so he can answer the most important question of all: Are you really saving New York from the bees, detective, or the bees from New York?

If you’ve got any other burning asks to add to the list, send them our way: simone.wilson@patch.com.