Georgia beekeepers rescue thousands of dying bees from Atlanta airport

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April 25th, 2022

Wooden packages of bees are stacked in an airport cargo container outside. Many of the bees in the packages are dead.
Thousands of bees died as containers of beehives en route fro Sacramento, Calif., to Anchorage, Ala., were left outside in the spring sun while stuck in transit for four days in Delta Air Lines cargo storage at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. (Matthew Pearson/For WABE)

Edward Morgan took a hammer and chisel to a syrupy wooden plank with five packages of bees attached.

Most of the bees inside were dead.

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Morgan and more than 20 other beekeepers from the Metro Atlanta Beekeepers Association (MABA) rescued thousands of bees that had gotten stuck in transport at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport on Sunday evening.

A beekeeper examines a package of mostly dead bees at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on Sunday evening. (Matthew Pearson/For WABE)

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