Overturned truck releases thousands of bees onto highway

UPI ^ | MARCH 19, 2024 / 12:29 PM | By Ben Hooper

[Red Badger]

VIDEO AT LINK...........

March 19 (UPI) -- Beekeepers were summoned to a Mississippi highway to round up thousands of bees when the 18-wheeler hauling their hives overturned.

The Adams County Emergency Management Agency said the truck overturned Sunday night on Highway 61, in front of Merit Health in Natchez.

Beekeepers from Adee Honey Farms in Woodville were summoned to the scene to help round up the bees that swarmed around the overturned truck.

Adams County EMA Director Brad Bradford said the scene was not cleared until 7 a.m. Monday.

"This was my first bee catastrophe," he told WLBT-TV.

He said the bees remained calm during the incident because it was after dark and the hives were covered in tarp.

"The majority stayed in the vicinity after the wreck and were able to be contained in or near their hives," Bradford said.

No injuries were reported as a result of the crash or the ensuing bee swarm.

[fhayek]

...not the Bee...

[Magnum44]

[martin_fierro]

[Vigilanteman]

My Dad was a beekeeper. Most beekeepers order their bees from Mississippi. Dad would only order them as needed. He always left them enough honey to winter over.

I once asked him why other beekeepers in the area didn't do that. He told me that the honey was worth more than the cost of the new bees. Then I asked him why he didn't do the same and loved his answer.

"Son," he said, "those bees worked hard to make that honey. I can't bring myself to gas them dead knowing what they did for me. It isn't like a turkey who I have to provide for in both food and labor and, finally, pays me back with its meat."

[Osage Orange]

Great story!

Thanks...your Pop was a good guy.

[dfwgator]

[frank ballenger]

In these two X-files the actors and a stunt double were actually exposed to the bees and some were stung. I think that was reprehensible.
Interviews on dvd extras.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhrsjDwamY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5bHCNIPBXg

Excerpt:
Preparations made and precautions taken prior to filming this sequence were hurried, due to the fact that filming on the bee dome set had been moved ahead in the schedule, but they included the screening of cast and crew members for allergies to bee stings. Neither David Duchovny nor Gillian Anderson tested positively, but Anderson’s usual stunt double on the film was found to be allergic and consequently had to be replaced for the single sequence’s stunt work.
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After Scully’s coat was treated with a pheromone attractant Gary had developed and employed often in his line of work, he discovered that he could get a few bees to walk on the coat’s fabric, toward the odor. Once on the set, Gary had a fan blowing the odor from the coat’s left collar to the right collar - the opposite direction of the path set out for the bee - and, at the right collar, the preselected bee was released from a cage, on cue. To the astonishment of Gary and everyone else on the set, this female bee flawlessly performed the requested set of behaviors, about a dozen times that morning. Gary was extremely proud of the bee and saved her as a memento of the film, after she died. From (The Making of The X-Files Movie)

[Round Earther]

It gets messy with multiple disturbed colonies. Lots of bees flying around, lots of confusion, lots of mixed pheromones from each colony, except for the alarm phermone.

The bees are all on the same page with that one.

[Leep]

Not the Bee.😁

[No name given]

Uh oh.

[1_Rain_Drop]

A few years ago, I was outside and heard this weird humming noise. As I tried to figure out what it was, this black cloud was coming towards me. Soon it enveloped me. The humming became intense. It was bees passing through. Coolest experience ever! They settled in the pine trees for a few days.

[T.B. Yoits]

They need to reach out to the bee lady, Erika Thompson.

https://texasbeeworks.com/

Youtube Shorts of her rescuing bees:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/96pdu2hB-bo

[desertsolitaire]

Paging the nearest Apiarist. Massive cleanup on Hwy 61.

[fidelis]

Certain times of year when the bees are on the move, I’ve driven through swarms of them flying across the freeway. Whap! Whap! Whap, whap! At times like that I’m glad I don’t normally drive with my windows down.

[9YearLurker]

Pull over, lift the hood of your Aston Martin—and you might end up with a bee in your bonnet.

[DannyTN]

[gitmo]

I used to keep bees. I worked with them most every day, and they were extremely gentle with me. I rarely used netting to protect my face and didn’t wear gloves.

One day I saw that a bear had knocked over three of my hives. I went down and picked up a hive to set it back up. They almost ate me alive. Stings all over my body.

[Tell It Right]

There's only one man who can fix this problem...

[Round Earther]

The bees don’t give a damn it is was you or the bear, they are going to take it out on you, because the bear ain’t there.