Several emergency responders were stung after the truck flipped in a sparsely populated area of Whatcom County. Efforts were underway to recapture the bees.
Sucks for those beekeepers but on the bright side, that’s 250M bees that won’t be contracting and transmitting diseases from being forcibly intermingled with thousands and thousands of other hives with varying levels of hygiene, thus becoming vectors of their own when they get back.
Sucks for those beekeepers but on the bright side, that’s 250M bees that won’t be contracting and transmitting diseases from being forcibly intermingled with thousands and thousands of other hives with varying levels of hygiene, thus becoming vectors of their own when they get back.