SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects flipped over on a California highway.

The California Highway Patrol says 8-to-12 million bees escaped Sunday from the crates in which they were stored and swarmed over an area of Highway 99 and stung officers, firefighters and tow truck drivers trying to clear the accident.

CHP Officer Michael Bradley says a tractor trailer flipped over while entering the highway on its way to Yakima, Wash. The flatbed was carrying bee crates each filled with up to 30,000 bees.

Bradley says several beekeepers driving by the accident stopped to assist in the bee wrangling.

The bees had been used in the San Joaquin Valley to pollinate crops.


That's a lot of bees!! :shock: :shock:

 

Bet those that got real close got one heck of a BUZZZZ! :lol:

 

:shock: :shock:

 

Haha. good one.

 

What are the odds of THAT???? :shock: :shock:

I've seen MANY of these trucks being inspected at the California P.O.E's!! For the life of me, I can't see WHY!!! Unless.... of course..... they figure it would be the perfect vehicle for smuggling drugs!! :shock: :lol:

 

other than that, there are already enough bees flying along the 5 and highway 99. i drove through a good swarm near elk grove. an hour before it happened, i had cleaned off my windshield. i had to pull over a mile ahead to wipe off the mess. it was almost like that time i was going through northern louisiana and hit a gigantic swarm of big bugs that made my entire windshield greenish-brown.