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Thread #167920   Message #4054640
Posted By: keberoxu
23-May-20 - 01:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: saw my first bumblebee of the season
Subject: RE: BS: saw my first bumblebee of the season
Donuel wasn't kidding, by the way,
with that post on another thread
about a US industry in which
a staff of beekeepers drive a truck/lorry or two
from farm to farm,
with a colony of really overworked angry honeybees on board.

This story has been reported in some detail
in more than one periodical.
I read one such account
with an interview of one of the beekeepers and
he talked matter-of-fact-ly
about how cross the overworked honeybees are.

Far better to be a great furry bumblebee
than a member of a captive swarm of touring honeybees.