Wow, even with an insurance payout I have to imagine that’s crippling for a beekeeper.
Also, escape is a weird way to spell ‘swarm because their homes were violently destroyed’.
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It's crippling for all of us
Last year they had those commercial hives experiencing a die off. Now they crashed a semi full of them on the way to some orchard. They're gonna have to switch to robo bees soon enough.
If the Queens stay in the hive I think they could just wait for the rest of the bees to find their way back.
I hope you're right but this was a semi full of hives. They have to be horribly damaged. I hope they can get some experts in there to identify which hives can be saved and put some distance between them.
Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.
Oh that could bee bad. I bet the loss really stings.