Bellingham, Washington – There was a stir in the air on Friday in the northwestern state of Washington, where about 250 million bees succeeded in a commercial truck that turned.
The Watom County Office said on social media sites that the truck that transported an estimated 70,000 pounds of honey bee cells roll around 4 am in the department of the Canadian border near Linden.
Emmy Claude, a spokeswoman for the emergency department in a province, said that the driver did not move in turn well enough, causing the trailer to roll in a trench. Claude said the driver was not hurt.
Representatives and public works staff and many bee experts responded to the scene. The bees later went out of the truck, and raised the local beekeepers to help recover, restore and reset the beehives, according to the Sharif Office.
The plan is to allow the bees to return to its cells and find the queen of the Queen’s bee in the next day or two days, according to the Sharif Office. The goal is to provide the largest possible number of bees.
Sharif’s office said: “Thank you to the wonderful beekeepers community: More than twenty appeared to help ensure the rescue of millions of honey bees, which could be as successful as possible.”
The public was advised to avoid the area on Friday, and the honorable deputies continued in their cars in their team at times to avoid being surprised.
Honeybees are very important for food supplies, as more than 100 crops are vaccinated including nuts, vegetables, berries, citrus fruits and watermelon. Bees and other pollinations have decreased for years, experts blame pesticides, parasites, disease, climate change, and the absence of various food supplies.
In 2018, the United Nations General Assembly sponsored “World Bee Day” on May 20 to draw attention to the bees.
Beekeepers often transport millions of bees from one site to another because leaving them in one place for a long time can deplete resources to other pollinations, the Seattle Times reported.
Alan Woods, head of the Association of Beekeepers in Washington State, told the newspaper that the state should have a “response to the unified emergency” of beehic accidents. In 2015, 14 million bees from North Seattle truck fled on the 5 Highway and began to scare people, the newspaper said at that time.
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