Bee-ware! Drivers warned after 5 million bees fall off truck on Canada street

Aug 30, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Bee-ware! Drivers warned after 5 million bees fall off truck on Canada street

Drivers in components of Canada are being warned to maintain automobile home windows closed after a truck carrying 5 million bees spilled onto a street.

Halton Regional Police mentioned they obtained a name about 6.15am native time reporting the crates of bees had come free from a truck and spilled onto Guelph Line in Ontario, simply west of Toronto.

“Crates were literally on the road and swarms of bees were flying around,” Constable Ryan Anderson mentioned.

He described the incident as “quite the scene”.

“The initial beekeeper that was on scene was apparently stung a few times.”

Beekeeper Mike Osborne. Pic: AP
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Beekeeper Mike Osborne. Pic: AP

Beekeepers return bees. Pic: AP
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Pic: AP

It is unknown the place the bees had been being transported and for what cause.

Pedestrians had been requested to keep away from the realm and drivers had been requested to shut their home windows as they handed by the realm.

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The driver of the bee truck Tristan Jameson, left, walks with the owner of the bees, Alexander Haley. Pic: AP
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The driver of the bee truck Tristan Jameson (L), walks with the proprietor of the bees, Alexander Haley (C). Pic: AP

About six or seven beekeepers arrived on the scene to help after an enchantment from police was placed on social media.

It took round three hours to clear away the vast majority of the bugs, that had been collected and brought away.

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Pic: AP

Some crates had been left behind for the bees to return to on their very own.

In summer time, a colony of honeybees tends to have about 50,000 to 80,000 bees in response to the Canadian Honey Council, a nationwide affiliation of beekeepers.