"The whole situation is tragic": About a million bees died when left on a hot UPS truck for weeks

[cheryl]

"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."

 

[Wally]

Oops.

 

[MECH-lift]

Think UPS will pay for the bees value?

 

[Wally]

Think UPS will pay for the bees value?

Is that the buzz?

 

[MECH-lift]

I see dead bees at work all the time , people continue to ship them?

 

[Est.1998]

Can bees be shipped next day air?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Can bees be shipped next day air?

I don't think the cargo area is pressurized but I could be wrong

 

[Wally]

Can bees be shipped next day air?

Only with drone shipments

 

[Est.1998]

I don't think the cargo area is pressurized but I could be wrong

I just read the article.
Looks like it was the customer fault and some of the bees escaped. Can't imagine being the unloader.

 

[Wally]

Can bees be shipped next day air?

Only with drone shipments

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I just read the article.
Looks like it was the customer fault and some of the bees escaped. Can't imagine being the unloader.

We had a couple crates of those bees break open at our building also.

 

[Est.1998]

We had a couple crates of those bees break open at our building also.

Stuff like that should be treated like a hazmat

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Stuff like that should be treated like a hazmat

Oh if you're allergic to bees they can mess you up really bad even kill you

 

[oldngray]

UPS trucks get hot?

 

[Est.1998]

UPS trucks get hot?

This is funny because I'm sure it doesn't get scorching hot in Boston. The bees died from lack of food and probably crushed due to the poor container they were placed in.

 

[Wally]

I just read the article.
Looks like it was the customer fault and some of the bees escaped. Can't imagine being the unloader.

The unloader yelled, "BEES, RUN FOR YOUR HIVES"!

 

[Wally]

The sups had to honey-
comb through the load to find these bees.

 

[zubenelgenubi]

Oh if you're allergic to bees they can mess you up really bad even kill you

I guess UPS should require wearing beekeeping suits due to the extremely tiny possibility someone working there might get stung and die.

 

[Wally]

I guess UPS should require wearing beekeeping suits due to the extremely tiny possibility someone working there might get stung and die.

I know in the yard we are required to wear the Yellow Jacket...

 

[MECH-lift]

BEES LIVES MATTER protests soon?