Thousands of swarming honey bees found under manhole cover in Washington, video shows
Thousands of swarming bees were found under a manhole cover in Washington, a video shows.
The honey bees were spotted in Colville at an eastern Washington Department of Transportation shed, the agency said in a June 22 Twitter post.
The 59-second video shows a beekeeper from the Hunting Bee Apiary lift the manhole cover with bees.
“This is very very new because it’s super white. You can see how gentle they are. They’re just babies,” the beekeeper says in the video.
Then the beekeeper began looking for the queen. It has a “long body” and “spidery legs” and it doesn’t like light, she says in the video.
The beekeeper climbed into the manhole to find the queen bee.
“That’s who I needed, otherwise the other bees won’t come back out,” the beekeeper says when she finds the queen bee after 20 minutes.
The beekeeper says she plans to take the bees home to get them “as healthy as possible.”
This story was originally published June 22, 2022 at 4:18 PM with the headline "Thousands of swarming honey bees found under manhole cover in Washington, video shows."
