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250 million bees spilled in a crash
May 31, 2025 7:08 PM
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250 million bees spilled in a crash
LespritDeLescalier22
You gotta get a tranq gun and shoot each and every one of those little fuckers. Good luck
Apeofdeath
Bee careful
MrItchyPantsPimpleEye
Poor little fuzzy bois
thedarkcanuck
They say Beyonce should be on scene in the next couple hours
bluto1415
supermario182
Where's the bee saving lady when you need her?
gablestout
Did someone say bees?
dgtlrift
smadge1
Buzz off!
napsmear
arajad
This happened once in the infamous Mixmaster interchange in the middle of Dallas. I don't remember how long traffic through downtown was shut down. They spilled everything in the Mixmaster over the years: paint, cows, bricks, honey...
xenjamin
Bees should be transported like special cargo. Special handling. NO FUCKUPS!!!
Blakeadelic
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1doberman
Well I’ll bee!
Sebastopol140
gablestout
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youreathing
And it was another great day of spilling the beeees.
codenameRadical
Normally, at night, while they're sleepy. In this case? It may require remaining on site for some time, spreading hives out, ensuring they're reassembled as faithfully as possible, and hoping you can find queens, get hives back where they go, etc. There will be substantial losses, all the same, unfortunately.
webx9001
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OhIfIMust
BuddhasBodyguard
"VERY CAREFULLY."
RuBisCO1
Is it me or are the bees really pissed off they crashed in a ditch?
Funktackular
AdroitCudgel
OregonComputerGuy
Simple, find the queen, take her to Washington DC, the hive will follow
Sebastopol140
RooGryphon
long live the queen
zenoshogun
I for one welcome our new insect overlords.
badcode4o4
this happened near Bellingham Washington to my understanding
triassictango
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gablestout
OdinYggd
The professional beekeepers they called will locate each of the surviving queens, putting them into an intact hive with a trapdoor entrance. Like so the bees will smell their friends in the new box and enter to be with them, then not be able to get out.
JustDontCare
"Hey everyone! Whats all the Buzz about! Ha-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH"
LieselSkywalker
I just watched an 911 episode with that storyline.
xkjagnz
Also
LogicDude
Tell them to BEEhave and go back in the hive where they BEElong?
LespritDeLescalier22
goddammit
IgnisInvictus
You don't. They called in the aparists and it'll be a 3 day process for the bees to find their queens / hives. You basically just leave them alone for 3 days and let the bees figure it out. Then the professionals will load them, possibly in several different smaller trucks.
TsubakiTragic
simple solutions are usually the best solutions.
Judany73
What is their queen was killed?
IgnisInvictus
Well, in a hive that isn't scattered all over the highway, worker bees immediately start the supersedure process. They'll try to find larvae of the right age and feed them royal jelly.
A situation like this results in drifting or joining. An entire queenless hive may join one with a queen. Drifting is a bit more complicated and happens with a single bee trying to join a new hive, which may or may not work.
denimdaddy
Is "aparist" a term? I'm just not familiar with it. Isn't it just "beekeeper". The place bees are kept is an apiary
IgnisInvictus
I spelled it wrong. "Apiarist" is the correct spelling. Yes it's a term. While beekeepers do the day to day stuff, apiarists focus more on research, science, and conservation. In something catastrophic like this, call the apiarists. They'll call the beekeepers in for assistance. This isn't normal beekeeping but someone who deals with bees daily can absolutely help.
denimdaddy
Nice! Thanks!
I've been a beekeeper for 10 years now and this looks like an absolute nightmare scenario to deal with
IgnisInvictus
Welcome. I think of it this way (though there's often a lot of crossover), call the beekeeper for honey sales, call the apiarist to rehome the hive inside your walls, call The Everyone in this situation.
And I very much agree, this is a nightmare. Some of the queens might have died. I can't imagine hive joining in this freaking situation.
hipifreq
This. Some beeks figure out which boxes are salvageable and put hives together. Others watch for clusters that form around queens and move those into the hives. Yet more bring empty equipment to replace broken hives. Give them until sunset when all the bees with queens go back in their hive
EleganceIsDead
I absolutely love that; just leave them be, they'll figure it out much faster than us... THEN we pick them up. LMAO!
mikeatike
Let them bee.
EleganceIsDead
EleganceIsDead
Addendum; I don't know about raising/caring for bees, BUT I live in the middle of a forest, with fruit trees & berry bushes (mostly for moonshine, you can only make so much preserves, compotes, & jams, AND it would seem, EVERY-FUCKIN-ONE I know from family to postal carriers prefer moonshine to jarred fruit. Then there's my tomato plantation, various veggies, & flower gardens (yeah, some weed too, but that's unimportant here). My point being, I have so many different Bees, & they're so friendly.
EleganceIsDead
Addendum II (sorry for prattling on); I frankly think, they know I raise and care for the shit that feeds them, so I'm like one of them. So many different bees from like the chopper sounding Bumble Bees, to Joe-schmoe Honey Bees land on me, when I'm tending to my "hobby farm," to like scope out the best flowers or rest on me cuz they're like loaded with pollen to the hilt. I have NEVER been stung by a bee, and over the years, hundreds to thousands of them have landed on me. ^_^
FortKnoxbutforBagels
You know, one of the great things about the internet is sometimes you get this little peek at a total stranger who's just living their life and having a great time. Sure, you could be cynical and say it's made up for views, but I choose to believe there's a goddamn moonshine bee shaman out there. Every morning out in the garden like "Hey Michael Bee Jordan. Might wanna get one last hit off those blossoms before it's still o'clock."
voxykins
i mean what are you ganna do lol go around with a net or vacuum? xD
EleganceIsDead
That's actually what I was expecting, like big butterfly or bee nets and a soft vacuum, until I read the comments and all the bee people were like, naw, just leave them be, they know what they're doin. LOL!