{
  "id": 9172775,
  "title": "More Than 800,000 Bees, Worth Tens of Thousands of Dollars, Have Been Stolen in ‘Sophisticated’ Heists Across Northern Australia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/more-than-800-000-bees-worth-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-have-been",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-22T17:38:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-than-800000-bees-worth-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-have-been-stolen-in-sophisticated-heists-across-northern-australia-180989545/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The recent spread of a bee-killing parasite has contributed to an uptick in brazen thefts, experts theorize",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}