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Re: Wrong time of year to lose your hives
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2015, 09:53:23 am »
What a mess every thing looks to be pretty broken up.
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Re: Wrong time of year to lose your hives
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2015, 10:06:05 am »
Every year this seems to happen, and here it looks like it happened on a straight stretch, not on an on or off ramp. ???
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Re: Wrong time of year to lose your hives
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2015, 10:25:40 am »
This is there solution to the problem The beekeepers had till nightfall to salvage what they could.

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Re: Wrong time of year to lose your hives
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2015, 10:31:52 am »
What a pity.  From the news item I didn't learn about this part of the tragedy.

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Re: Wrong time of year to lose your hives
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2015, 10:58:47 am »
It was at an exit with one lane of the highway closed for construction Aerial coverage.
http://www.koco.com/news/truck-full-of-bees-overturns-on-i35-near-pauls-valley/35560382
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Re: Wrong time of year to lose your hives
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Re: Wrong time of year to lose your hives
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2015, 12:54:10 pm »
Wow, what a huge loss for the beekeeper. The headline was hundreds of thousands but I'm guessing over a million.

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