More than 13 million honeybees spill on I-5 in Lynnwood
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LYNNWOOD — An overturned semitruck on I-5 Friday morning released more than 13 million honeybees, which stung firefighters, state troopers and others trying to clean up the mess.
Bees coated patrol cars, ambulances and other vehicles that happened by. Traffic backed up for miles.
Washington State Patrol Sgt. Keith Leary was stung three times and had one bee fly into his mouth.
“It looked like a gold, grayish-brown fuzzy cloud,” Leary said of the swarming bees. “When you are looking into the sun, it is like, ‘Wow, that is something you would see on Animal Planet TV,’ only it would be someone with a good lens photographing it from far away.”
An Idaho truck driver was hauling the 448 hives from Sunnyside in Eastern Washington to a blueberry farm in Lynden when he merged from I-405 onto northbound I-5 around 3:30 a.m. That’s when the truck tipped onto its side and dumped its load in the HOV lane and median.
The driver, 36, wasn’t hurt.
The bees weren’t so fortunate.
“They are pretty much a total loss,” Leary said.
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150417/NEWS01/150419140
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