About 25 beekeepers hurried to the Atlanta airport to help rescue the agitated survivors.
The 200 packages of bees she’d ordered for her business,, were supposed to be sent from Sacramento to Seattle on April 22, then on to Anchorage, she told him.
He said he was pained when he took a close look at McElrea’s 800-pound shipment, which was divided into packages that each contained five screened wooden frames holding tens of thousands of bees each.“I vacuumed up the dead ones, then I saw there were several packages where every bee was dead,” Morgan said. “I was like, ‘Whoa — this is not good,’ ” he said.“These bees aren’t going to make it,” he recalled telling her.
McElrea asked Morgan to get the word out to other beekeepers in Atlanta that if they’d go to the airport to help find surviving bees, they could have them at no cost.So Morgan called Jimmy Gatt, president of the Metro Atlanta Beekeepers Association, and asked him to send out a “free bees” email to the group.
Those measures come too late for McElrea, 48, who said she was stunned when she went to the Anchorage airport on April 22 to pick up the bees and discovered they’d been rerouted to Atlanta.In Atlanta, the bees couldn’t be loaded onto the Alaska-bound plane because the cargo hold strap mechanism used to secure heavy loads was broken, she said.“Then somebody moved the bees outside because they thought some of them were trying to escape,” she said.
McElrea, who has worked in the honey and bee supply business for 22 years, said she plans to file a claim soon in hopes that Delta will pay for her bee replacements. The bees that died made up half of her honeybee order for the year, she said.here, and it’s a lot of work to get the bees through the winter,” she said. “About 350 beekeepers depend on us every spring to come through with new deliveries.
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