Daily Archives: March 24th, 2008

A different kind of bee disaster

A truckload of bee hives overturns in California:
“A big rig loaded with 440 colonies …. populated by 8 million bees flipped over onto its side on the onramp to northbound 99, scattering countless numbers of the valuable insects.
Traffic on 99 wasn’t affected, but the ramp was closed from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. as bees [...]