Well done on that headline, it'll create quite a buzz I'm sure. The Reg editorial office is clearly a hive of activity today.

IGM heavy canvas & mesh coat, hat, veil, gloves and smoke machine.

not buzz-iness as usual then...

mines the yellow and black one :D

Brilliant. Made my afternoon.

Sorry, too late in the day to come up with a real stinging comment.

Mine's the one with the gauze helmet..

Obviously both the crash and the decline in Bee numbers is the work of Beelzebub!

I'm also amazed that nobody has managed a "2B or not 2B" comment yet.

Now Bee off with you all!

The bike jacket and my lid please ;-)

reminds me of when a sales girl phoned saying she'll be late because she was stuck behind a lorry load of blood which had popped on the m6

when she did arrive everybody popped down to take a look at the car, it looked like an extra from death race, theres only so much squirty wipers can manage

not sure if it was black pudding related or not

... you swarms of punning commentors ...

A lorry load of onions overturned on the A1(M).

Police advised motorists to pull over and find a hard shoulder to cry on.

It's the one that looks just like Ronnie Corbett's - or was it Jasper Carrot?

- with nothing sensible to say should bee like the truck and hive off.

yeah right... like any goverment will ever bother to spend money on research when they already have it(in secret reports),

They simply dont want to let the (bee!) out of the bag, that thier gazzilions of $$$ they get in back handers from the Mobile industry is the cause of all the insects making a bee-line to the coast to escape the death rays from all those masts.

They will never spend money, so long as they can inport bees from Australia, so when they too start suffering CCD there, then all hell will really break lose.

black helicopter cos its a Government conspiricy (you really need a evil-bushy icon)

mines the silver suit with the funny hat...

Trust me, there are much worse things that can be spilled on a highway than a few workers and queens. Ever see a truckload of animal parts, on the way to a rendering plant, spill? Eww!

Dave

P.S. I'll get my coat. It's the pigskin one.

I suppose we can be glad they weren't Africanized killer bees...one sting is never enough for those bad boys...

Paris because she's busy as a little bee can be...

...have a hazchem symbol?

Mines the coat with the veil & hood

For a minute I thought this was a horrifying story of how amy winehouse loses her entire wig collection :)

...that police are combing the area.

Tadaaaaaaa !!! thank you, thank you.

Please refile the article in the Bee2Bee section.

I can imagine a truck load of bees overturning. But here in Virginia we have transport trucks with Chickens, and Turkeys. Nothing is worse than following a Chicken or Turkey semi - truck in 90 degree heat in the summer time.

Feathers flying everywhere (these are wiremesh cages - trucks have no sides, tops or bottoms). Bird shit dropping on the windshield. The smell alone is enough to want to vomit even when inside the car.

Last year alone, I had to wash Turkey shit off the car (a white wagon) at least three times- due to extensive travel in the Western half of Virginia on I-81, and I64.

Now imagine 1000+ turkeys on a farm near the highway, in 90 degree heat in the summer time - we have that here in Virginia also.

I think I would prefer the bees any day. Even when I got stung 6 times last year by Hornets that were almost 2 inches in size.