Bee swarm closes Highway 99
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Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the buzzing insects flipped over on a highway in Sacramento.
The California Highway Patrol says 8- to 12-million bees escaped from the crates in which they were stored, swarming over an area of Highway 99 and stinging officers, firefighters and tow truck drivers who were trying to clear the accident from the roadway.
CHP Officer Michael Bradley says at about 10 a.m. a tractor trailer flipped over while entering the highway on its way to Yakima, Wash.
The flatbed was carrying bee crates filled with up to 30,000 bees each.
Bradley says several beekeepers driving by the accident stopped to assist in the bee-wrangling. The beekeepers called their colleagues, who responded and came to help repair damaged bee crates and get them loaded onto two new trucks.
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