So that's what was happening with all the bees! It wasn't cell phones (okay, it really wasn't) or pesticide. They were just all inside a truck. And now that truck has crashed on an Idaho highway, releasing 14 million bees to go make a giant vat of potato honey or whatever bees do in Idaho. 

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It took cleanup workers all day to get the honey from 400 overturned hives off the roadway. As for the bee escapees, many are still at large, ready to make a go of living on the lam, perhaps bringing new blood hemolymph to some hives decimated by Colony Collapse Disorder. They already stung some firefighters! They can never go back, man! 

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