Oddly enough but true a truck containing 12 million angry bees was overturned on a major highway in Canada near the town of St-Leonard. A couple thousand were set free before the vehicule could be sealed. As you might have figuered dealing with millions of bees is not exactly easy. Gaz has been poured in the truck to calm the bees and so officials said that there was no danger to the general public but “If there’s anyone in St Leonard who is allergic to bees, we’re recommending they leave town for a couple of hours,” Strong told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. If you are like me, and hate bees. I’d suggest not going anywhere near St-Leonard anytime in the near future
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~ by Tristan on July 1, 2008.
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Tags: Bees, Canada, St-Leonard, Truck
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Tristan's unproductive blog. - Bloggeries Blog Forum said this on July 4, 2008 at 13:53 |
See, now, this kind of news reporting really bugs me (no pun intended!) – the pollination services of honey bees are absolutely essential to our food supply, they are gentle creatures when not dumped upside down from a transport truck in the pouring rain, and only a very tiny percentage of the population (less than 1 percent) is actually allergic to bee stings. Bees get confused with hornets and wasps a lot, and blamed for their aggression. Honey bees (and particularly Canadian bees, since we don’t have the more aggressive Africanized strains of bees up here) are Our Friends! (That’s not saying you have to like them – just, please, don’t just accept the media’s tendency to sensationalize events: “like a scene out of a horror movie,” the CTV news anchor said – and yet, not a chainsaw-wielding maniac in sight! :)