Honeybees clustered under the wing of a Delta Airlines flight at Pittsburgh International Airport last week; the plane could not depart until a beekeeper was summoned to take possession of the swarm. CBS reporter Mary Robb Jackson adds that swarms of bees are not uncommon at the airport, where 25,000 to 30,000 occupied Taxiway-C last May. [KDKA]

  • SmallishButt

    Black and gold, baby.

  • fuzzyfuzzyfungus

    Clearly Delta is not cut out to play against the zerg…

  • Andrew Duane

    No, BEADS.

    • atteSmythe

      We’ll see who brings home the most honey!

    • EH

      No swarm for you!

  • http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

    The script for this writes itself.  All they need is Samuel Jackson to repeat his Snakes on a Plane role.

    • Felton / Moderator

      That could also use a cameo with Eddie Izzard yelling “I’m covered in beeeees!!”

      • Gilbert Wham

         Couldn’t everything?

      • Antinous / Moderator
    • Wreckrob8

      And African killer bees!

  • Lobster

    That’s… not how beekeepers work.  They do not have magical powers over bees.

    Wait, do they?

    • http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

       I’d consider not getting stung to death to be a magic power.

    • bkad

      Bees are pretty stupid when they’re swarming. (Or presumably, all the time.)  My father kept bees, and was once asked to recover a swarm somewhere. Technique was: place blanket under swarm, which was on a branch. Shake branch; bees fall on blanket. Shake blanket into hive or desired carrying receptacle.

      I imagine it is more complicated if the bees are swarming in or around a structure like an airplane.

  • CSBD

    Has Fox news done a “BEE STORM 2012″ story yet?

    • Jay Converse

      No, it was Beemageddon 2012

      • EH

        Only if they turn out to be Chinese or South American/Mexican.

    • http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

       Sounds more like that Syfy thing to me. Maybe this was really a publicity stunt for their new miniseries: Dino-Bees 2013!
      Gives me hives just thinking about it.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H6YQVDTUTQXZ5BOZBIC2DVFFRA JMM

      Megyn Kelly and Steve Doocy were just speculating how his could be the “Democrat Party” response to voter ID laws

  • http://profiles.google.com/stephen.schenck Stephen Schenck

    I had to do a double-take to realize that this story isn’t http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/hillary-clinton-bee-attack_n_1747259.html

    Bees sure seem to be up to something…

  • http://twitter.com/abstract_reg Reg Robson

    Bees?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/4ZT36HCARVZIJACL2KJSELXKBQ Lakshmi

    The Mayans spoke of this.