Topic: Humans & Bees
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Sat 10/03/15 05:17 AM
Bees: We love to hate them, hate to love them & we need them.

Part 1 of 3

WATCH Short Video -Massive swarm of bees traps Oklahoma police officer in squad car - National | Globalnews.ca http://globalnews.ca/news/2250036/watch-massive-swarm-of-bees-traps-oklahoma-police-officer-in-squad-car/

September 30, 2015 12:29 pm
WATCH: Massive swarm of bees traps Oklahoma police officer in squad car

By Elton Hobson
Video Producer  Global News
 
 An Oklahoma cop shot this incredible footage as a swarm of angry bees trapped him inside his police car.

It sounds like something out of a cartoon: a transport truck loaded with honey bees overturns, loosing an angry swarm of critters on anyone nearby.

But for one Oklahoma police officer, that situation was all too real Tuesday afternoon – and he has the camera footage to prove it.

Garvin County Sheriff’s deputy Carl Zink responded to an accident on Interstate 35 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma shortly after 1:00 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.

According to the Oklahoma State Highway Patrol, a transport truck loaded with crates containing honeybees overturned, spilling “millions” of bees in an angry swarm at the scene of the accident.

PAULS VALLEY-I35 SB MM 72, ACCIDENT WITH INJURY, ROAD CLEAR, SEMI HAULING HONEY BEES ROLLED OVER, BEES ARE LOOSE ALONG THE INTERSTATE…KJM

“Millions, millions of bees. I couldn’t give you a number, but millions,” Scott Woods, a motorist who pulled out the driver from the truck, told KFOR News in Oklahoma. “I got stung on the lip, on the end of the nose, mouth, the side of the eye and then the back.”

When Deputy Zink arrived on the scene, the swarm of bees had grown so large – and so agitated – that they literally trapped him inside his cruiser.

Video shot by Zink from inside his cruiser shows the incredible, almost cringe-inducing scene as millions of critters swarm on his windows and front windshield.

He was forced to wait in his cruiser until the bees were cleared. Luckily for him, he says he was only stung during this out-of-the-ordinary accident call.

'Bee truck' being towed away outside Pauls Valley @kfor pic.twitter.com/lhRybS7ITA

— Adam Snider (@AdamSniderKFOR) September 29, 2015
GARVIN County officials were informed bees are more aggressive at night. Fire is a safety precaution @kfor pic.twitter.com/1NJvffjhoW

— Adam Snider (@AdamSniderKFOR) September 30, 2015
Eventually, the bees were either collected or dispersed. Beekeepers say they were able to recollect over 100,000 of the escaped bugs.

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Giant hive, home to 70,000 honeybees, being removed from CBD building | NOLA.com http://www.nola.com/pets/index.ssf/2015/09/70000_honeybees_removed_from_g.html/

50K Honey Bees Moved From Bradenton Tree http://www.newstalkflorida.com/50k-honey-bees-moved-from-bradenton-tree/

News - St. Paul Bruce Vento nature sanctuary now home to honeybees http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_28907655/st-paul-vento-nature-sanctuary-now-home-honeybees/
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CBD honeybees get new home http://www.wwltv.com/story/sports/nfl/saints/2015/10/01/cbd-honeybees-get-new-home/73166460/

Gueho of the Busy Bee Company has been doing it for 54 years. The 65,000 bees are in a side yard, a small part of the more than 6 million bees here.
99.9 percent of the CBD bees are female, but of the 65,000, there is only one decision making queen. Is this home now? You never know.
“That queen can say I don't like this. We had a four-bedroom house before, you tried to put me in a one-bedroom apartment. I don't like the color. And they can move,” Gueho said. “They are going to be working here in this orange grove, traveling at a five mile radius of the Marrero area, never going back downtown, because they're too far.”
To separate the honey in a spinner takes about a half an hour. The result is pure gold.

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Sat 10/03/15 05:19 AM
Part 2..

California bee attacks-

Swarming bees sting man 50-100 times in Costa Mesa - LA Times http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bees-sting-man-50-100-times-costa-mesa-20151002-story.html/
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Bees Are, Quite Literally, Worrying Themselves to Death:
American honey bees in peril.

Bees Are Literally Worrying Themselves to Death -- NYMag http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/bees-are-literally-worrying-themselves-to-death.html/

What Is Killing America's Bees and What Does It Mean for Us? | Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/what-is-killing-americas-bees-and-what-does-it-mean-for-us-20150818/

The Death Of Bees Explained – Parasites, Poison and Humans - YouTube http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GqA42M4RtxE/

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Sat 10/03/15 05:20 AM
Part 3..

Honeybees, Honeybee Pictures, Honeybee Facts - National Geographic
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/honeybee/

Bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee/

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Sat 10/03/15 05:43 AM
Where is Jerry Seinfeld when you need him?



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Sat 10/03/15 08:12 AM
http://youtu.be/eA_HDzf-17Y/ bigsmile


The Bee Movie - Jerry Seinfeld