bee mess in california

catfishbill · March 18, 2008, 03:39:45 PM

hey yall.did anyone get a call for the bees that were in the semi wreck in california?i saw it on the news this morning.they were everywhere.

suprstakr · March 18, 2008, 03:55:46 PM

Saw the mess too . DARN there goes the profit , hope there was insurance..

bassman1977 · March 18, 2008, 05:04:20 PM

Geez...when it rains, it pours. Bees can't catch a break no-how. :(

Where did you see this? Any links?

Trot · March 18, 2008, 05:52:24 PM

It's already two days old news. . . .

http://www.9news.com/news/watercoole...?storyid=88253

Trot · March 18, 2008, 06:00:24 PM

some pictures....

http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217004

catfishbill · March 18, 2008, 06:46:33 PM

did not realize it was old news,been away from computer for several days.did they recover most of their bees?

Sean Kelly · March 18, 2008, 07:06:07 PM

As a beekeeper, that picture is AWESOME!!! As a truck driver, that scares the *&@#$ out of me!

Sean Kelly

johnnybigfish · March 18, 2008, 07:42:41 PM

I just heard about it this morning. Thats like such a bummer.
But,...First thing that came to my mind was how cool it would be to be there right after it happened and be able to catch a ton of bees!
I had a picture in my mind of piles of bees in my back yard and hoping that the bees would pile up around the queens so it wouldbe easier to separate colonies and get them boxed up.
Then again, this was kind of like thinking about what I would do if i won the lottery!
your friend,
john

annette · March 18, 2008, 10:52:28 PM

This happened about 1 hour from where I live. Have a guy from work stuck in the traffic just sitting and watching that mess. All the people from work handed me the newspaper when I arrived to work to show me the photos. I feel so, so sad for the bees.

Annette

Scadsobees · March 19, 2008, 09:22:03 AM

This sort of thing happens 1 or 2 times a year :roll:

Big moving vehicles loaded with lots of individual boxes that can move, time limits...not suprising, just very noticable.

-r

Jerrymac · March 19, 2008, 11:03:57 AM

Here is a video of it.

http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=13874.0

reinbeau · March 19, 2008, 08:46:10 PM

Quote from: Jerrymac on March 19, 2008, 11:03:57 AM
Here is a video of it.

http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=13874.0

It says it's unavailable :(

johnnybigfish · March 19, 2008, 09:33:10 PM

Yeh, thats what it says to me too..i thought it was something with my computer only.
your friend,
john

Jerrymac · March 19, 2008, 10:28:53 PM

Hum? See the time stamp up there

the video came up for me at this time (8:28 pm)

reinbeau · March 19, 2008, 10:35:38 PM

Quote from: Jerrymac on March 19, 2008, 10:28:53 PM
Hum? See the time stamp up there the video came up for me at this time (8:28 pm)

Lucky you - at 9:36 it's still unavailable to me. All I get is a praise job of Slick Willy :roll:

Jerrymac · March 20, 2008, 12:18:05 AM

Well let us try this and see what happens

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/256.0/popup/index.php?cl=7000319

It is probably the same link. Wonder if you have to be signed up on yahoo for it to work because I just don't have any trouble.

reinbeau · March 20, 2008, 08:31:15 AM

No joy. I wonder if you've got it cached on your computer so it comes up ok for you?

Sean Kelly · March 20, 2008, 09:20:11 AM

Came up fine for me.

Sean Kelly

Jerrymac · March 20, 2008, 11:36:36 AM

OK I went through a great amount of trouble to go and find this for all ya'll. This better work.

http://www.cbs13.com/video/[email protected]

reinbeau · March 20, 2008, 04:35:00 PM

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jerry! I hadn't seen it, Greg had.

It is gratifying that they now care enough to try to save the bees - in the past they'd hose them down with foam and kill them all! :shock: The reporters' comments at the end were good, too. Maybe people are finally getting a clue and listening to the canary in the coal mine.