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 Truck spills 14 million bees on Idaho highwayTuesday, July 12, 2011 (07-12) 07:21 PDT Island Park, Idaho (AP) -- Cleanup crews in Idaho have finished clearing honey and an estimated 14 million bees that got loose after a delivery truck overturned on a highway. Fremont County Sheriff deputies say several workers were stung during the first few hours of the cleanup Sunday. And some observers told The Post-Register about seeing a strange black cloud and roaring noise above the spill area before realizing it was a massive swarm of bees. Authorities say a truck was hauling the bees from California to North Dakota when the driver veered off the shoulder, tipping more than 400 hive boxes and honey. Crews worked all day Monday before removing all the honey from the roadway, though deputies say a significant amount of bees were still buzzing. |
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Bees - angry when disturbed, can they be calmed, or will they remain an angry swarm? Idaho - unskilled in the arts of Bee Control and Insect Hostility Management. A solution must be found, but how?
What a strange and chaotic "accident". A guy can't help but notice that IF this bee shipment was coming from SOUTHERN California and going to North Dakota, it MAY come dangerously close to Colorado. Was SOMEBODY running low on honey? Or was One possibly slighted by denizens Fremont County? MLOL Either way, good show, old boy!!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good time to start a fire.
ReplyDeleteWhere there's fire there's smoke.
And where there's smoke,
there are hungry bees.
i'll take Bubonic Plague for $800
Blackguard and Wraith,
ReplyDeleteThank you both. Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder (it's real - One swears) is decimating Bee Populations in Colorado and many other states.
One thought the images of bees, so tantalizingly tangible might prove honey to our resident Apis mellifera expert.
Honey is awesome by the way. It's probably the sugars, but honey is varied and has a surprising complexity of experience notes (smell, taste, consistency). There's probably Research Money in there somewhere.
-Lord Malignance
LM,
ReplyDeleteYou are correct, honey IS awesome. Nothing better has ever been said about any other insect's vomit.