"The whole situation is tragic": About a million bees died when left on a hot UPS truck for weeks - CBS News
Most of more than a million bees shipped by a Pennsylvania distributor died when they were left on a hot UPS truck for weeks, CBS Boston reports.
The station says it was too late to save them when a beekeeper was finally called in on Wednesday.
And Anita Deeley, a former Massachusetts Department of Agriculture inspector and a beekeeper, told CBS Boston, "Almost all of them could have been saved if they called someone right away."
Most of more than a million bees shipped by a Pennsylvania distributor died when they were left on a hot UPS truck for weeks, CBS Boston reports.
The station says it was too late to save them when a beekeeper was finally called in on Wednesday.
And Anita Deeley, a former Massachusetts Department of Agriculture inspector and a beekeeper, told CBS Boston, "Almost all of them could have been saved if they called someone right away."