Commercial beehives can and will be easily replaced. This is a massive industry, it's not like they just rely on hoping bees show up in their farm. They have ways to create a new hive and quickly recover the population. This will not have a long-term impact on bee populations. The news lately about bee population declines is a problem with wild bees, not ones living in carefully controlled conditions.

This really is just an arson/destruction of property case.