Overturned truck releases 24M honeybees forcing Texas town lockdown(fox26houston.com)

4 pointsby Vaslovor 17 Tagen1 comments

Overturned truck releases 24M honeybees forcing Texas town lockdown

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/overturned-18-wheeler-releases-least-24-million-honeybees-forcing-texas-neighborhood-lockdown

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rolphvor 17 Tagen

this is a truckload of "hives", i airquote as its not made obvious if these are actually established hives, or if they are hive splits, which is likely at this time of year.

the difference is that a split or a package, is not as defensive, vs an established hive with queen brood honey and pollen,which will be vigourously defended.

further exacerbation arises from the presence of many different queens, which will attack each other, and will be attacked by non hive mates.

this is very dangerous to remediate.