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Now I'm not saying this was anything but an accident, although there was a loud bang right beforehand and also, they said the driver was going too fast.

What stood out to me, was how the owner was handling it. Called off the rescuer bee keepers saying it was an insurance issue now. Also had them spray the bees down with toxic foam, for liability reasons. Poor bees, it's always the money!

All this talk of honeybee colony collapse syndrome and they don't let them be recaptured or fly away? 🙄

Another glaring point was the last paragraph:

The bees were to be used for pollination of food crops on the West Coast

Now I'm not saying this was anything but an accident, although there was a loud bang right beforehand and also, they said the driver was going too fast. What stood out to me, was how the owner was handling it. Called off the rescuer bee keepers saying it was an insurance issue now. Also had them spray the bees down with toxic foam, for liability reasons. Poor bees, it's always the money! All this talk of honeybee colony collapse syndrome and they don't let them be recaptured or fly away? 🙄 Another glaring point was the last paragraph: >The bees were to be used for pollination of food crops on the West Coast

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My friend is a beekeeper whom I help every now and then. This doesn’t sound like there was much to do to save them. Maybe scrape the swarms that gathered around the crash site? I don’t see how you go in and save even box that toppled. That, and how do you find the queens that survived? If you find a surviving queen, how do you seed it in a new hive that you had no time to prepare for a new queen?

He had a bee box fall over this season and the whole hive bailed and swarmed in a tree 50 yards away. By the time we got suited up and rigged the extension ladder to the ATV the swarm was gone.

I really think that the bee keepers saved whatever swarms they could and whatever bee boxes that were still intact. Everything else probably got the foam.

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Thanks for the info. I don't understand why they couldn't just let them fly off like the swarm in your friend's tree. I still think it's a shame about the bees, though. :(