Huge cleanup on highway in Canada after over 5M bees fall off truck

Good afternoon a big buzz in Burlington Police in Halton and beekeepers found themselves in a sticky situation this morning after millions of bees fell off a truck and onto the road ctv’s Alexandra Pinto joining us live with this story Alex Crews had quite their hands full with 5 million bees Daryl and

Clean up lasting for hours here’s a look at the scene from our CTV News chopper from earlier this morning as Crews worked to contain the bees and apiary boxes well they Spilled Out onto the road so this happened near Guelph Line North of Dundas just before 7 30 this

Morning at one point police were urging drivers to keep their windows closed when passing by and for pedestrians to also avoid the area now two hours later Halton Regional Police tweeted the majority of the bees had been cleared and safely collected the cleanup wrapping up shortly after that

At this point snow word on how the truck lost its load of bees police say that they will also be leaving some of the crates behind for the remaining bees to naturally return to and are thanking the beekeepers for their overwhelming response for jumping in to help Daryl

All right an interesting story there thank you Alex

Chopper footage shows crews on scene after approximately five million bees fell off the back of a truck in Burlington, Ontario.

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