A truck overturned yesterday on the I-15 near St. George, Utah, spilling some 25 million bees onto the highway.
Twenty bee keepers from the area were called in to help local officers put the bees back in their boxes, which is not as easy as you might think.
“You can’t just grab any two boxes,” said Washington County bee inspector Casey Lofthouse. “When you throw those two colonies together they just kill each other.”
When darkness came, many bees returned to their respective colonies, but millions remained lost. They are expected to linger near the accident site for about a week, according to Lofthouse.
So, if you’re not into being stung by a million bees, stay away from there
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5 comments:
"...which is not as easy as you might think." Who would ever think it would be easy?
And people wonder why the bees are disappearing.
I blame the Bee Truck Driver's Union and their generous worker's comp program.
Where are the Beard o' Bees Men when you need them?
They all have mysteriously disappeared over the past several months. Our only hope are all those seniors who were stung multiple times while gardening and then developed bee like superpowers.
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