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Nearly 2 million bees let loose after semi crash on interstate, driver stung hundreds of times (www.actionnews5.com)

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[–] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago

How many bees would it have been of this would have been a "full" crash I wonder...

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 hours ago

The best way to transport bees is public transit.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

"Drive more safely, you bastard!" zap

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 10 hours ago

Too bad it didn't happen in DC.

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 13 hours ago

Power to the beeple 🐝

[–] BaroqueW@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Beads?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 hours ago

GOB's not on board...

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

SOUNDS LIKE A JOB FOR DOCTOR BEES!!!

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

I came for the bees gif in the comments and I quite satisfied.

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that was a semi crash! Imagine what a full-blown crash would've caused

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Never go full chub when you're transporting that many bees.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's really interesting to describe bees as "loose". What actually happened was a spontaneous pollination event.

Maybe that's what makes them "loose". Using their labor in such a way that can't be exploited by capital.

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

What...

Are we doing bee communist theory now?

If anything, bees are happy to contribute to something greater than the sum of its parts. That's how hives work.

I'm not a vegan, but I can appreciate the values concerning animal welfare. Extending that to bees is just kinda silly to me. Nobody forces them to stay in the hive. They make more honey than they could ever use.

And if we're talking about stolen labor value, should farmers be paying for all the animals that work to pollinate their crops? What about the ladybugs that eat aphids? Or the worms that turn waste into compost? Or the spiders, centipedes, wasps, and countless other critters that keep crops free of pests?

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

In a sense i agree, but the crash was in Summer in North Dakota and they are European honeybees.

Honeybees are quite invasive in North America. They kill and displace native pollinators and they are generally less effective pollinators of native plants. The release of dozens more colonies into the ecosystem is a negative thing no matter how you look at it.

North America has the greatest native bee diversity of any temperate part of the world, but if you go out into habitat and actually start counting insects you will find honeybees outnumber everything else in most places, most times of year.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Something like this was depicted in Chicago Fire television series. It was crazy. Turned into a Beenado taking down planes and shit. Fun to watch.

Hope everyone is okay here.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 20 points 1 day ago

Driver must have been pretty buzzed. :P

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Were they Burt’s Bees?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 6 hours ago

Clorox bees

[–] AnalogRegression@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Just applied some Burt's bees to my lips

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Jus da babies

[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dr. Bees was undoubtedly involved

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

WHATS THIS!?!

[Queue intro theme and Dr. Bees standing on a grassy knol]

A STRETCH OF HIGHWAY WITH A DECERNING LACK OF POLLINATORE AND OR BEES?

MY SEMITRUCK FULL OF BEES AUGHT TO PUT A STOP TO THAT!!!

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Or The Candyman.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Guess who doesn't have arthritis anymore.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

"OW! Fuck! I didn't mean it, I'm sorry!"

[+] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world -8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

They can finally doo-doo.

Fuck the honey industry; wish it were the owners who got stung instead of the driver.

Edit: You know what makes me laugh sometimes? That much of society is give-or-take 200 years divorced from the widespread acceptance of human chattel slavery – an era where a vast swathe of the population were perfectly content in the idea that other actual human beings existed to serve their needs under often lifelong abuse. An era where "they're safer this way; it's (conveniently) better for them if I take the products of their labor" as alluded to below applied to living, breathing, sapient human beings with hopes, dreams, feelings, and relationships – little if no different from themselves.

That everyone here today totally understands that this happened.

And that then those people who today benefit directly from and perpetuate the brutal, wholly unnecessary exploitation of billions upon trillions of animals may be forced to confront: "Could I be in the wrong? Is the fact that humans justified chattel slavery for countless generations indicative of a profound willingness in our species to justify unfathomable atrocity for their own convenience? Could I be justifying something because it's convenient to me personally?" To which the answer is: "No, it's those annoying people who insist upon rights for animals who are wrong."

I used to do this, which somehow makes it funnier and more depressing.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most apiaries are just people, not corporations that bottle honey. The very very vast majority of bee keepers have zero to do with the poor practices of honey bottling businesses that adulterate honey and ruin the industry. Most commercial honey comes from private beekeepers who rent their bees to pollinate crops so Americans can actually have affordable food. Those beekeepers are not out there adulterating honey or acting irresponsibly with their bees. Most adulterated honey comes from out of the nation and is imported by a select few shit corporations. Fuck the corporations, not the people working hard to get your quality honey and pollinate your food so you don’t have to rely on poorly functioning vitamin substitutes to avoid diseases humans get when they eat limited selections of produce and hyper processed “food”.

[+] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world -17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Those beekeepers are not out there adulterating honey

I care about bees, not how pure the product of their systematic exploitation is. It's not "my" honey or yours; it's theirs.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m a bee keeper and it’s clear you know nothing about bees and how they work. They don’t use all their honey, and you leave them enough plus some extra to use and survive on all year and through the winter. If you leave unused honey it attracts mice and other pests that destroy the hives, eat the honey, the larva, and cause much stress and eventually encourage disease in the bees. A well managed hive is actually better, safer for the bees than just leaving them to their own devices, which runs on reproducing in such high numbers that their species survives and replicates based on swarming, dividing the hive so often that they can continue on as a species despite disease, some colony collapse, some suffering.

A good bee keeper is safer and healthier than a natural selection process because nature can be a bitch, especially if your species isn’t about the individual but is instead a numbers game.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

Fellow beekeeper here and I concur.

Having said that, my heart sinks when I read about these crashes, and the bees are described as "loose" or "escaped". Very few of those colonies would survive. They've lost their home and their queen.

[+] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world -9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hey, you forgot to mention the part where beekeepers clip queen bees' wings so the hive physiologically has essentially no choice but to stay.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have never ever known another bee keeper to clip wings of queens, especially because they only live a few years, swarming is healthy, and clipping is pointless when you manage the hives properly. A seasoned bee keeper will just manage the hives to do artificial splits and the queens will just stay in the new split because it mimics a swarmed hive in a new home. This complaint is like saying i don’t trust doctors because some use motor oil to perform ass and bicep and breast augmentations. Yeah, a few shady assholes do, but not the majority, so why are you judging and condemning an entire group based on a limited few who perform a very rare practice? Because you don’t know what you’re talking about and want to be angry about something on the internet, because it’s easier to do that than actually get out there and talk to people in the industry first hand. Stop getting your news and information from anger engagement sources.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I made it this far down and appreciate your patience with the other poster and I learned about bees!

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you get this worked up about other topics?

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Actually, yeah, I do, usually ones involving widespread abuse and exploitation. Glad you asked.

Can a man not advocate the rights of bees while also hoping that two million of them descend upon Benjamin Netanyahu?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The bees are not enslaved. They can swarm and leave at any time.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a common misconception. Technically, yes, the bees can physically leave, but because of that, it's common practice for beekeepers to clip the queen's wings – thereby the queen can't leave and a hive's chance of success in swarming decreases drastically. By the nature of how bees work, it is an artificial ball and chain.

[–] Krusty@quokk.au 0 points 1 day ago