Authorities in Delaware spent most of Tuesday night cleaning up the wreckage from a tractor-trailer crash. The cleanup took longer than usual because of the truck's cargo: 20 million bees, most of which escaped and swarmed the truck.
A student in Portsmouth, England named George Neal recently awoke to a living nightmare: 20,000 bees covering his Nissan Micra, which was parked outside of his home.
A swarm of unruly and confused honeybees took over a Topshop on Victoria Street in London yesterday afternoon, presumably looking for spring sales or to reassert the ferocity of Wu-Tang Clan. Beekeepers came to divert the bees elsewhere, away from retail.
Summer is here, and that means you're probably getting stung by bees. Are you up to date on the very latest medical opinions regarding bee stinger venom delivery? Find out!
Last Wednesday, shoppers at a Target in Oregon were shocked to find tens of thousands of dead bees littering the store's parking lot. Environmentalists and scientists, while initially baffled by the deaths, now believe the bees died because of exposure to an insecticide called Safari, which had recently been applied to the parking lot's trees.
The overworked and poisoned bee slaves that pollinate the almonds for your vegan milk are still dying en masse.
A swarm of bees descended on a group of young children who were on a field trip to a "bunny park" near Johannesburg on Friday. The children were waiting to be loaded onto their school bus after visiting the park when they were attacked by the angry bees.
TLC's weekly hoot My Strange Addiction profiled one of its wackiest specimens yet last night. Fifty-three-year-old Margaret is a ringer for Mackenzie Phillips who lives in Morningview, KY and stings herself with bees up to 15 times a day. It started as a treatment for her arthritis but then became a recreational activity. She describes the sensation as "peppery" and reports, "No two stings are alike but I feel relief from all of them."
Red, green, and blue batches of honey produced by bees in French apiaries are the fault of an M&M's processing plant down the road, keepers said today.
Here is what is in right now: rooftop beehives and celebrating Rosh HaShana. In Brooklyn, the two practices go hand in hand.
Bees reportedly chased Hillary Clinton out of Malawi yesterday. The State Department described the bees as "normal."
Though our grandparents are often referred to as "The Greatest Generation," we, too, will make our mark in history as the generation that endured merciless war without end. First, the War on Drugs; then, the War on Terror; and now—everyone, please load your weapons—the War on Bees.
Remember a month ago when New York City—specifically: actor Jude Law—was rocked by a sudden bee attack as inexplicable as it was horrific?
The scene in the East Village this afternoon looked a lot like this one, from The Wicker Man. Traffic was at a virtual standstill as police worked to contain the massive beehive in a tree at Bowery and First. At least a dozen people filmed alongside me, plenty of more snapped pictures and even more passersby inquired what the hell was going on to the bystanders. One woman thought the building was being robbed. There was little to no buzzing heard.
A pissed off swarm of Africanized honey bees attacked a 95-year-old man in California yesterday, stinging him hundreds of times. A police sergeant told the LAT, "Most men would have died, but he's taking it in stride."
The sidewalk at Mulberry and Grand Streets near Little Italy was closed down for several hours today so that beekeepers could remove a swarm of bees that descended on a mailbox on the corner. Apparently this is a natural phenomenon that happens this time of year when hives get overcrowded. Well, just because it's natural doesn't mean it isn't creepy.
"High powered" science journal Biology Letters is publishing a paper about the way bees use color and space to navigate between flowers. It was written by 25 co-authors, all of whom are between the ages of 8 and 10.
Last night on Conan, the show imagined what the "Oprah's Favorite Things" episode of Oprah would look like if Oprah was giving away live bees instead of fancy VW cars. Let's just say we'd prefer to watch this version instead.
This poor sheriff in Wake County, NC got trapped in his car by a swarm of bees. 50,000 bees! Apparently, a truck hauling beehives malfunctioned and the bees escaped keeping Brandon Jenkins in his car for three hours.
Bee populations in the U.S. declined almost 30 per cent last year. Why? Some researchers think it's because cell phone radiation disturbs their navigational abilities (Update: Not everyone agrees!). Bee holocaust: There's an app for that.
