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A Massachusetts woman was hit with multiple charges after she allegedly unleashed a swarm of bees on law enforcement. According to ABC affiliate WCVB, the incident took place Oct. 12 in Hampden County, where officers were trying to enforce an eviction notice. Officers on the scene were reportedly confronted by protestors, including Rorie Susan Woods—a 55-year-old woman who allegedly […]
A 20-year-old Ohio man is now expected to make a “full recovery” after being stung thousands of times by bees while cutting limbs from a tree. According to a report from regional outlet WCPO 9 News, which includes comments from the man’s mother, the incident saw the ultimately hospitalized individual being stung more than 20,000 […]
The next time you want to add honey to something, you might want to think twice. According to a study conducted by Nature Communications, traces of radioactive chemicals from nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s can be found in American honey. The samples collected came from over 100 hives and soil samples all across the Eastern United States. […]
Since the first Asian giant hornets appeared in the US, scientists have been working double-time to track them to their source and wipe them out. The so-called “murder hornets” are the largest species of hornet in the world and could wreak havoc on local ecosystems. After a few failed attempts to track captured hornets back […]
Following the news earlier this year that giant Asian “murder hornets” had been spotted in the U.S., one has been captured in the state of Washington for the first time. The Washington State Department of Agriculture confirmed it had trapped one of the dangerous insects at Birch Bay in Whatcom County. The hornet was captured on July […]
Bill Oakley, former producer and writer for The Simpsons, is admitting to something we knew all along. The long-running animated series predicted practically everything that has happened in 2020. In the 1993 episode titled “Marge in Chains,” which Oakley is credited as a co-writer, an outbreak of the flu occurs in Springfield after a sick factory worker in […]
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