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A bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, having some kind of epiphany!

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Bee macro by @Doug88888 on Flickr.

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Via Flickr: This is one of my first shots with my new Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro Lens. =) Note: I am deathly allergic to bees. One almost killed me a few years ago when I was stung & went into anaphylactic shock. I had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Upside is I got to see the white light everyone talks about. And you know as a photographer, i love light. haha. Namaste Mr Bee

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Scientists rediscover a rare species of bumblebee in the U.S.

The last time it was seen in the wild was 55 years ago.

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Why Are So Many Bee-Carrying Trucks Crashing?

A semi-trailer truck hauling 460 beehives overturned Sunday afternoon on an interstate near St. George, Utah, releasing a swarm of 25 million bees into the air. Several people were stung, including the truck driver, his passenger and those helping out at the scene of the accident.

“It was insane,” Corey Jennings, an onlooker who was stung by the bees, told The St. George Daily Spectrum. “The swarm of them was so big. You couldn’t see anything else.”

A similar incident happened in July, when 14 million bees, as well as a river of honey, flowed out of a wrecked semi in Idaho, and 17 million bees escaped a fatal truck crash in Minnesota last year. Why so many highway accidents involving bees?

The uptick results from the fact that more and more honey bee colonies are being transported around the country via highways in recent years. Local bee populations are rapidly dying off from a little-understood disease called “colony collapse disorder” (CCD), which is marked by one tell-tale sign: When beekeepers open a hive in the spring, they find only the live queen, her brood, and the honey that the bees had stored up for the winter; all the adult bees, and even their carcasses, have mysteriously disappeared.

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