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Bees on the plane
Bees on the plane
Around 20,000 bees were claimed to be on the plane, which grounded passengers for 11 hours. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago
tags bees swarm plane
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 BrownTro...
2 years ago
"Some witnesses claimed there were around 20,000 bees,"
How exactly does one estimate the number of bees in a swarm? Was there a bee expert onboard that looked out the window and said... yep, we must've sucked in 20,000 of them!
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 Moe
2 years ago
Actually that is probably very close to the truth. I would imagine that a beekeeper would be able to estimate the size of a swarm from a visual inspection.

And bee types are not as rare as one might expect. In the small town I grew up in there was at least two people with their own (multiple) backyard nest boxes.
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