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    Bees? BEES!

    Hubs and I were driving down the interstate today when we saw a pickup stopped on the side of the road with its hood up. We were prepared to stop and help, until we noticed the driver out on the passenger side, dressed in some sort of strange suit. As we got closer, we realized it was a beekeeper's suit, and in the back of the pickup were beehives!

    We really felt bad for the guy, since he likely had to either fix the problem himself or call a friend of his so he has someone else with a beekeeper's suit to help out. Just... that is not a situation in which you want to break down!

    As a side note, I didn't know you could transport beehives that way- I figured the bees would go flying out as he drove!
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    Bees? Did you have an onion tied to your belt?
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      I'm actually kind of reminded of back to the future part 1 where marty's in a radiation suit and an old couple floors it away from him on the side of the road.
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        THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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        • #5
          Quoth wolfie View Post
          Bees? Did you have an onion tied to your belt?

          She couldn't get white onions, because of the war. All she could get were those big yellow ones. But the important thing is she had an onion on her belt, which was the style at the time.

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          • #6
            A bee bit my bottom! Now my bottom's big!

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            • #7
              Quoth Aragarthiel View Post

              As a side note, I didn't know you could transport beehives that way- I figured the bees would go flying out as he drove!
              Interesting side note, some beekeepers make extra money on the side taking their swarm around to pollinate certain crops. But I think they need to be sedated first with the smoke.

              I am looking into beekeeping as a hobby, I definitely will not be transporting my little honeymakers around.
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              • #8
                My understanding is that bees are generally transported at night (for local moves, such as between 2 fields with crops blooming at different times) since they're active during the day. For longer moves (e.g. the move on "Shipping Wars" where an 18 wheel flatbed was moving hives to a southern state where they'd overwinter) they're wrapped in a mesh too fine for them to get through. Still, a few find their way out. I'd hate to have that pull up next to me in a truck stop.
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                • #9
                  For some reason I just saw and heard (in my head) Yuri Lowenthal saying the title of this thread in the enchantment voice.

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                  • #10
                    On my morning commute, I sometimes see a pick-up truck with wooden boxes in the back. The truck has signs that say "Warning, live bees". The boxes look like hives and are all painted different colors. Once I was right next to the bed of the truck and got a good look, the slots in the hives were covered with mesh.

                    I have noticed that people tend to be very careful around that truck!

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                    • #11
                      What's this? A highway emergency, woefully underpopulated by BEES??? My truckload of BEES ought to put a stop to that!
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                        AHHH THE BEES!

                        Your firearms are useless against them!
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                        • #13
                          Bad bees, bad! Ow! Owwwww!!! Oh no, they're defending themselves somehow...!

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Aragarthiel View Post
                            As a side note, I didn't know you could transport beehives that way- I figured the bees would go flying out as he drove!
                            I was behind a couple trucks hauling beehives once. As they stopped to turn onto the interstate, one lone bee flew out of one of the hives. The traffic cleared, the trucks turned, and the poor little bee was left behind.

                            I felt super bummed for that bee. It totally ruined my morning. Poor little guy.
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                            • #15
                              Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
                              I was behind a couple trucks hauling beehives once. As they stopped to turn onto the interstate, one lone bee flew out of one of the hives. The traffic cleared, the trucks turned, and the poor little bee was left behind.

                              I felt super bummed for that bee. It totally ruined my morning. Poor little guy.
                              The alternative is rather worse - a hive chasing a single bee:

                              http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...ours-attempti/

                              TL;DR: the Queen got trapped in a car and the entire swarm followed it for more than a day to try and get her back (or that's the theory anyway).
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