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Truck accident unleashes 250 million honeybees in northwestern US (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not the scale, per se; it's the monoculture. They can't just keep bees next to the same field year-round because with only one kind of plant flowering, they would starve once its bloom was over. So they end up trucking them between places with different crops instead.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ah I see. That makes sense.