{"id":2737,"date":"2025-06-02T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/bee-mageddon-as-14-million-honey-bees-swarm-after-truck-crash-near-canadian-border\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:39:09","slug":"bee-mageddon-as-14-million-honey-bees-swarm-after-truck-crash-near-canadian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/bee-mageddon-as-14-million-honey-bees-swarm-after-truck-crash-near-canadian-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee-mageddon as 14 million honey bees swarm after truck crash near Canadian border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-02 14:39:08<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Millions of bees caused chaos in Washington state after a lorry hauling around 70,000 lbs of hives overturned, unleashing a buzzing swarm near the Canadian border.<BR><br \/>\nLocals were warned to steer clear as around 14 million honey bees escaped from the crashed truck when it tipped over on a road in Whatcom County.<BR><br \/>\nThe Whatcom County sheriff said: &#8220;The goal is to save as many bees as possible.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nEmergency crews worked alongside more than two dozen master beekeepers who scrambled to re-hive the insects and track down their queen.<BR><br \/>\nThe officers explained: &#8220;The plan is to allow the bees to re-hive and find their queen bee.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThey added that the area would stay shut &#8220;until the rescue is complete&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nIn a later update, police praised the &#8220;wonderful community of beekeepers&#8221; who turned up to help.<BR><br \/>\nThe driver of the truck was not injured.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-02 14:39:08 Millions of bees caused chaos in Washington state after a lorry hauling around 70,000 lbs of hives overturned, unleashing a buzzing swarm near the Canadian border. Locals were&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}