3 Million Bees die suddenly in Donghai County, China

Mysterious death

The dog kept barking at night tent early morning 110 boxes of bees all dead

Yesterday afternoon, on the way to the interview, the reporter saw a lot of beekeepers in the field set within Lianshui Xu Fang Feng. When a reporter asked whether the death of their bees phenomenon, these beekeepers told reporters, bee death is normal, but not a large area of ​​death. Xu set to spend time on the open space in front of the village authorities, the reporter saw the owner of 110 boxes of bees mysteriously died, 43-year-old beekeeper from Lianyungang Donghai County, Yang let.

“This year can be said to lose everything!” Wearing a beekeeper’s hat peculiar let Yang told reporters that he and his wife had in Hubei Fang Feng, Xu set by a local friend, he and his wife the night at 5 at noon to catch motorists to come here. Two o’clock in the afternoon, he and his wife duo will lift off 180 boxes of bees. In this process, a village cadres, let them come here Fangfeng, after a friend coordination, which eventually agreed to cadres. “Because some people are afraid of bees, so please outsiders to help lift poor beehive.” Yang lets say, the couple will settle all the hives after lift off, have begun to carry out their duties: honey bees out that his wife set up tents, while he himself began to dig in the hive box jelly, has been dug up at 10 o’clock, the couple will be too tired to rest in a temporary tent structures themselves. At night, he heard his own tent tethered dog kept barking, getting up with a flashlight to look around, I did not see suspicious circumstances. At 6:00 on the 6th and more, before he came to get hives and found the situation right.

“Usually an open beehive, always hear the familiar ‘buzzing’ sound can be opened that day, and what sound did not, I felt quite right, out of the nest box to look, I was petrified: The original should be packed lying In the above bees, even Para Para fell down! I put the beehive nest boxes are taken out, the bees have died of shabu to fall down, “20 years of beekeeping experience, let Yang told reporters He called his wife rushed to see other hives together, the result, a total of 180 beehives have 110 are the same situation. Carton around 30,000 bees, 110 boxes have more than 300 million bees have died, this scenario so that his wife suddenly collapsed to the ground.