A friend of a friend of a friend's bee truck ...

[Wandering Man]

Would this truck belong to anyone on this forum?

[Jen]

Good Night Nurse! Something very wrong here! Is this truck abandoned?

[Wandering Man]

Good Night Nurse! Something very wrong here! Is this truck abandoned?

If it wasn't, it probably was shortly after the pic was taken!   

[Perry]

Not right.

[Wandering Man]

Apparently there were 408 hives and an irresistible impulse to swarm.

[Some Day]

I think the truck belonged to a Russian beekeeper in California.

I'm not so sure who used to think they owned the bees, only to discover them missing.

[efmesch]

A bee-keeper's nightmare.

[Riverrat]

Think he got his 6 frame average when moving onto almonds

[Jen]

How would you even go about cleaning that bee mess up?

[Wandering Man]

I'd call Perry.

[Jen]

Truth of it is.. is that Perry would probably show up. It would make one heck of a film.

 483,971,390,591,691,465,989,259,450,768,290 gazillion trillion bees rescued by Canadian chap, Perry Brandt

 

[Bakersdozen]

Oh No!  The bees are supposed to be inside the hive bodies, not riding on the outside. 

Is it possible that one colony started the swarm signals and others followed because they were so close together?

[apisbees]

Massif bearding if the bees were confined in the hives by entrence screens, most the hives would be dead due to excess heat.
If he started driving down the road slowly as the bees cooled off they would return to their hive. I would rather see that than atruck load of dead bees.

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[Perry]

If I had been close I would have loaded up a truck with empty gear and set it out to catch all the wayward ones.

As funny as that looks, if it were any other form of livestock the owner/driver would probably be up on charges of neglect/abuse or some other fine. There is no excuse (in my mind anyway) for something like that, it's unacceptable.

[apisbees]

What would happen if in the middle of teansporting bees your truck broke down? Or you got stoped at a boarder safty station. If the are confined into their hives theee is a good chance that they will over heat and die.i would rathwr see hives with the bees hanging on the out side like in the picture than hives with dead bees.
When ever we are transfering bees we should have a backup plan for the what if's. His was to remove the netting to alow the bees to vacate the hives so the bees remaining in the hives could cool the colony. Our bees beard on the front of the hives all the time and we think nothing of it.
A plane load of packages from newzeland died because of heat and bad circulation. Other plalets where stacket to close causing all the bees to over heat.

[Jen]

I have thought about some of what Apis said already. I mean look at the terrain behind the truck, it 'appears' to be pretty barren. I'm going to think that this truck did have a bee savvy driver and then broke down in the plains or desert highway somewhere.
 

[Perry]

I suppose you might be right, but personally I would never be put in a position where that could happen. Another truck could be called or rented. I honestly don't believe that bees are given the same regard when it comes to their welfare as other "livestock".

[Jen]

"I honestly don't believe that bees are given the same regard when it comes to their welfare as other "livestock"

 Ya, I would have to agree with that 

[apisbees]

I have had to make a quick trip to canadian tire to pick up a waterpump 10 minuts befor they closed and then drive out to douglas lake for a friend who was dead on the side of the road with 60 hives on the back.if i could not get a waterpump he still wanted me to come cause we would have to handbomb them off on the side of the road

[Jen]

Apis... Good Heavens!