One beekeeper who came to the rescue described a cloud of "angry, confused and homeless" bees.
  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Beekeeper Michael Barber woke up on Wednesday morning to several calls from police looking for help after five million bees fell off a truck in Canada.

    Mr Barber said he arrived to “a pretty crazy cloud of bees” who were “very angry, confused and homeless”.

    At the same time police put out a public call on social media urging people to stay away from the area, which is about an hour south of Toronto.

    The bees were in their hives packed up on the back of a truck and being transported to their wintering location when the accident happened.

    The driver of the truck was stung more than 100 times, Mr Barber said, as he wasn’t wearing a full beekeeper suit.

    He said he was grateful for the many local beekeepers that worked to keep the insects and the public safe, and added that the incident is a good reminder to always securely strap your bees.

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      • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
        13·
        1 year ago

        Kinda weird that you’re thanking code, and gendering it. It’s like how people admire the singer in a band but not the ones making the music or making the singer sound good. The real talent is never appreciated.

    • notacat@mander.xyz
      201·
      1 year ago

      Farmed honey bees can actually harm local pollinators through competing for resources.

      • possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
        73·
        1 year ago

        I know. The bees are also dying out and the modern agricultural method of drenching things in fertilizer and then shipping semi trucks of bees across the continents is a uniquely absurd industry. Decentralize agriculture, restore (and transition) local pollinators, and let the bees die out as they would be doing without our interference.

          • possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
            61·
            1 year ago

            Climate change (and the expansion of diseases due to it), pollution, and other ecological harms.

              • possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
                11·
                1 year ago

                I knew someone would quip that. But humans are nature too. Our existence isn’t inherently interference (or else the word doesn’t have any meaning in the context). The world has changed due to our existence, and as a part of that the planet is no longer habitable for many bee species. This was the result of nature’s systems reacting to our actions, not the result of us choosing the outcomes that nature provided us.

                The chain of causality that is intentional interference is that now that they are dying, we have chosen to not let them. We now force a species to live in conditions that they are unfit for, simply because they are convenient tools for us. The language I used to describe this distinction may not have been perfect, but this is roughly the half-second of logic behind my offhand comment.