The Pigeon Express
Four beekeepers have been detained in Chile following a protest calling for government support for their industry. The beekeepers held a demonstration outside the presidential palace in the capital, Santiago. Seven police officers were stung as they tried to remove beehives placed by the protesters to block a main thoroughfare. A prolonged drought has been […]
Entomologists in Washington state are setting up traps and urging people to be on the lookout after a “murder hornet” was spotted attacking a paper wasp nest this week near the US-Canadian border. It’s the first confirmed sighting of a live “murder hornet,” or Asian giant hornet as they’re formally known, this year, according to […]
A picture of a car filled with bees being driven by a woman has taken the internet by storm. The picture from the United States’ Alabama state shows a woman driving a Toyota Prius with a beekeeper’s nest in her backseat. Strangely, the windows of the car filled with the swarm of bees appear to […]
A swarm of bees caused chaos at Kolkata airport in India this week after settling on two jets, delaying both flights. The bees first appeared on a Vistara plane on Sunday as it waited in a hangar before boarding, then reappeared the following morning on another jet in the same hanger. On both occasions a […]
A Taiwanese woman gong by the name He took herself to a hospital after complaining of a swollen eye, she expected a simple treatment for infection. Instead the 29 year old woman was horrified when the discovered four bees living under her eyelids, feasting on her tears. Doctors described the incident “world’s first” after successfully […]