Bee baseball game

Eventually all the players left the field. An exterminator in a beekeeping suit arrived shortly after. He climbed a ladder and sprayed the bees, then used a shop vacuum cleaner to remove the dead bees and the grounds crew tidied up the area. This isn't the first time Petco Park has experienced what the Padres jokingly referred to as a "bee delay. Bees swarmed an area of the outfield during a game against the Houston Astros on July 2, Once again, a beekeeper was called to attend to the insects, delaying the game for 52 minutes.

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. You can do that by rearranging the frames that make up an artificial beehive such that there are empty frames alternating with honey-filled ones.

The swarm will stop nearby and can be easily recaptured in a box or—get this—in a bee vacuum. Bee vacuums are very real devices designed to suck bees into a big box using exactly the right amount of suction so as to not harm them.

So remember: the next time you see a swarm of bees , just stand peacefully in their midst. Worst case scenario? You wear a bee suit like Bryan Cranston in Malcolm in the Middle. No biggie. Sara is an associate editor at PopSci where she writes about everything from vaccine hesitancy to extreme animal sex.

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