Last year more than 10, 000 items, including furniture, bicycles and flower pots, were taken away for reuse.

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Burglars also know all about those supposedly clever hiding places at home--behind the bookshelf, in the socks drawer, in the flower pots.

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By latest count, about 250 species of native bees are known to nest in sidewalk cracks, traffic median strips, parks, and high-rise balcony flower pots more perhaps than any other major city in the world, several entomologists said.

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