It’s Canada day but this is really buzz worthy! Bees have been making headlines: they’re disappearing, staring in a short film and now, a truck carrying 12 million bees overturned on a Trans-Canada highway.
A flatbed truck carrying 330 crates was returning from Ontario where bees were being used to pollinate blueberry fields.  On a ramp near St. Leonard (south of Quebec), the load shifted and the truck overturned.  When the truck landed on its side, many of the crates – containing four hives each – broke open.
The bees were described as “disoriented and angry.” Honeybees generally won’t sting unless they’re being bothered but they were just in accident! And it was raining outside… of course they were scared.
Afterwards, the highway was closed and beekeepers in white protective suits attempted to lure the insects back to their hives.
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Collapsed Hive Syndrome is scary and Canadian bees got a bit of a shake here recently!
Amazing how easy it was for us to make bees big business and truck them all over.
Too bad the little critters don’t always cooperate!
One Story About The Birds And The Bees
Inspired by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
For the BEES!
Let me tell you one story about the birds and the bees.
It started with love for the flowers and trees.
A horror story now; but I can tell it with ease.
A biologist, my hero, Rachel Carson agrees.
Man met a beetle, then his toxic sprays came down.
It killed lots of things and the elms all turned brown.
Bad business decided to let some life drown,
In pesticides, which are toxic. Does it not make you frown?
Honey bees, earthworms and birds pesticided.
Dandelions, clover, and trees herbicided.
Sadly, young lungs and livers toxi-cided.
Has man thought it through? Have his gods been confided?
Why poison annoying but such tasty bugs?
Why kill nature’s plants? To prescribe legal drugs?
How can we take down these immoral thugs?
We must stop them or die. No more life. No more hugs.
Mankind struggles with such a deadly habit.
He likes to destroy it. He likes to pollute it.
He exercises for ego, not to keep the earth fit,
For all children, who deserve their future on it.
Why spray to destroy, to abuse or to kill?
Is it just for the wealth, or for love of a thrill?
The left and the right fight a battle of will.
Most of us want to preserve the bird twill!
All of those able to damage with ease.
Make me sick to my senses and I want to cry ‘FREEZE!
We must save all the birds and the meek bumble bees!
For children’s sake. Please save them! Please! Pretty please!
Love Lora Bruncke