So apparently millions of bees were released on a California highway in an accident and several bee-keepers who were driving by stopped to help with the “bee-wrangling.”
I’ve never met a bee-keeper. I would certainly not expect to find several of them on the same stretch of road, just buzzing around town.
This is like someone having a foot problem and “several passing podiatrists” appearing on the scene to help. It just seems like the odds are low.
I’m going to be staring at my fellow drivers now at stoplights, wondering which one of them would help me wrangle bees.
It would be a lot more normal in Bulgaria. Lots of people keep bees here. And then they sell the honey at the market. There is nothing like homemade honey, I swear to god. I’d never had it before I came here, but I’ll never settle for storebought again.
Well if I’m not mistaken Sacramento is in an agricultureal area. The economy must depend pretty heavily on bees so that makes it somewhat less surprising.
You would most likely find fewer beekeepers on a highway in, say, New York City.
I know from a meadmaking message board I sometimes read that honey in amazing varieties is much cheaper and readily available in parts of California than most other places. More, cheap honey = more bees = more beekeepers.
As far as I know, a lot of California’s agricultural output depends on commercially-raised bees for pollination. The bees are transported from one farm to the next at pollination time by “wranglers”. It doesn’t surprise me that in certain areas of California, and at certain times of the year, there would be numerous wranglers on the road at one time.
Wasn’t overuse and over-transporting of commercially-raised bees one of the possible causes of the colony collapse syndrome that was supposed to cause an economic meltdown in North America last summer? Whatever happened to that worry?
And their mascot is Scoopy Bee. Back when McClatchy also had radio and television stations, the mascots for those outlets were Gaby and Teevy.
Here’s a pic of Scoopy and Gaby - they were created by Walt Disney, and I dare say they look like they’re up to no good.
Why do I know all of this? I knew a guy who was a drone in their IT department years ago, and yes, they called the main building “The Hive.” I also used to live on McClatchy Way in Sacramento and got very tired of having to spell that name to everyone, including the Bee’s subscription department. I told that person to look at their paycheck for the spelling.
