100,000 new animals at the zoo
I can't tell you what zoo, but one zoo that I frequent recently received a shipment of 10 x 10,000 honeybees, which are being carefully dumped into their 10 hives in the photo above. It's unclear to me exactly why this was done, since the honeybees are not on exhibit. But it was kind of those involved to contact me, since they know I like insects.
I've been near beehives before, but I hadn't ever seen such a concentration of bees. The apiarist sprayed them with water before moving them, so make them more sluggish and less dangerous.
Some of the other people there were quite frightened, and I felt like I should get even closer to show that the bees were not going to hurt them. Probably I just looked like I was showing off, which I probably was on some level.
