14 million bees escape after semi-truck spills load in Whatcom County

Описание: CORRECTION 5/31/25: The Whatcom County Sheriff's Office now says 250 million bees did not escape, but 14 million. The correction was posted on the sheriff's office Facebook page Saturday morning.

The video was produced before this information was corrected.

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A buzz-worthy story is unfolding in Whatcom County, where 250 million bees have escaped after a commercial truck carrying about 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives lost part of its load early Friday.

“When they said 200 million bees, they meant it. When I came back from the front, this little beekeeping suit that they gave, I was just pretty much covered in bees and I didn’t even go right up to the truck,” Matt Klein, deputy director for Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Management, told KOMO News.

The sheriff's office said deputies, Whatcom County Public Works and “several bee experts” responded to the scene on Weidkamp Road. The sheriff's office said the truck overturned around 4 a.m. in a rural area northwest of Lynden near the Canadian border.

Weidkamp Road was closed between Loomis Trail Road and West Badger.
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