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Flight delayed for 3 hours due to bees swarming on plane's wing
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| By Ben Hooper
Posted on 05/04/2023 11:52:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
I guess they don’t have de-icing equipment in Houston. That would have blasted the bees away, if not dead.
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posted on
05/04/2023 12:27:10 PM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
To: ConservativeInPA
They didn’t want to kill them................
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posted on
05/04/2023 12:28:03 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Uh, start flying? The bees won’t be there for long. WTH?
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posted on
05/04/2023 12:28:32 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Live free, or die!)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
They didn’t want to kill themMust be my insensitive side showing again. (Not that there’s a sensitive side.)
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posted on
05/04/2023 12:31:03 PM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
To: EVO X
It’ the time of year, full moon and warm, dry weather......................
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posted on
05/04/2023 12:31:59 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: ConservativeInPA
Now they know the bees will fly away if the just start the engines.................
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posted on
05/04/2023 12:32:53 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Bet that was one honey of a flight
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posted on
05/04/2023 12:38:37 PM PDT
by
Tupelo
(A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
To: Red Badger
2-3 cans of Raid and boom
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posted on
05/04/2023 12:43:55 PM PDT
by
albie
To: Red Badger
Why wasn’t a beekeeper allowed to touch the plane? You can be too paranoid.
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posted on
05/04/2023 12:49:36 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
To: doorgunner69
“Is that stupidity a TSA or FAA thing?”
My guess: a union thing.
To: Blood of Tyrants; Rennes Templar
Why wasn’t a beekeeper allowed to touch the plane? Nobody wanted to get into apis sing match.
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posted on
05/04/2023 1:17:13 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
To: Red Badger
Glad they didn’t spray them. All you have to do is wait when bees do this, and they’ll normally disperse on their own.When they swarm like that, they are normally protecting the queen whist others look for a place to relocate to.
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posted on
05/04/2023 1:20:04 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
To: Red Badger
Swarms are gentle.
I have captured swarms from trees and eaves of houses while wearing just shorts and a tee shirt.
To: Red Badger
Extra points for parody verse of “Eric the Half-a-Bee”.
To: Red Badger
Delta Airlines is being very careful following there bee fiasco last spring.
They re-routed a palate of honeybee colonies that were supposed to be flown directly from California to Alaska to Atlanta where they sat in the hot sun where most perished.
Every year, Alaskan beekeepers import package bees to replace hives lost to our harsh winters.
Local Atlanta beekeepers were able to salvage about 10% of the bees, but it was a tragic loss for Alaskan beekeepers.
Bad press for Delta too....
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posted on
05/04/2023 1:49:28 PM PDT
by
Species8472
(Don't celebrate sin!)
To: doorgunner69
I doubt any sane beekeeper would want anything to do with an airplane about to take off. Even if he didn’t do anything to affect the flight, if the plane crashed, he would be swarmed by lawsuits.
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posted on
05/04/2023 1:50:34 PM PDT
by
skr
(Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
To: Nervous Tick
BLM....Bee Lives Matter!!!!!!
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posted on
05/04/2023 1:55:37 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: Red Badger
Just take off...500 mph slipstream will blow them off.
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posted on
05/04/2023 2:38:23 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Red Badger
I would think having the bees help with the flying would bee a good thing.
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posted on
05/04/2023 9:33:54 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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