Futureatp From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 211 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 5378 times:
That reminds me.
During the winter/spring of 2004 while employed at HP, I witnessed a swarm of bees at PHX shut down gate A18 or A20(I was assinged either A20 or A22). They just showed up in a swarm and just settled. The bees then built a cone shaped hive underneath a belt loader in less than 20min. I was rather impressed.
Cch362 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 147 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 5346 times:
The Wall Street Journal had a story about this. According to the article, the bees are attracted by the smell of jet fuel. This also seems to happen more to WN planes, because bees especially prefer WN's livery to other airlines.
ONTFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 378 posts, RR: 3 Reply 8, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 4995 times:
Same thing happened to a WN plane also at LAX a while back. Can't remember specifically when, but is also featured on and episode of Airline. Maybe it's something with T-1? Who knows? I hate them critters!
SLCUT2777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 3861 posts, RR: 11 Reply 11, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 4631 times:
Quoting TPAnx (Reply 3): IIRC, bees swarm where the queen lands...so...
(This gives me a great idea for a horror film.."Bees On A Plane"...)
TPAnx
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Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51 Reply 12, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 4406 times:
Quoting ONTFlyer (Reply 8): Same thing happened to a WN plane also at LAX a while back. Can't remember specifically when, but is also featured on and episode of Airline. Maybe it's something with T-1? Who knows? I hate them critters!
Falstaff From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 5673 posts, RR: 29 Reply 13, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 4368 times:
Quoting Lowecur (Reply 7): Wow, great picture. It's hard to believe they were able to hold on at 500mph.
In 1994 I had a spider on the hood ornament on my Buick Riviera for 220 miles. When I left my driveway it was on the hood ornament. I drove on I-70 from Chesterfield, MO to Warrensburg, MO and the spider was still there and alive when I got there. He proceeded to crawl away when I stopped. He just climbed around to the back side of the hood ornament to get out of the wind. The entire drive I waited for him to fly off, but he never did.
As far as bees on a plane, I have never seen anything like that before.
GEnxPower From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 121 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 4278 times:
Insects don't survie at altitude, even if there were no "speed" factor. I have experiences when I saw insects in the cabin and by the time the plane climbed out, the insects die out.
It's interesting to see that process actually (purely scientific/academic curiousity). At first they get agitated due to noise and change in pressure. Then stay real still, and later as if their body "shrink" and "shrivel" due to pressure imbalance with the pressurerized cabin. Almost like implosion.
Disclaimer :
I am a BIG animal lover and I do not encourage any delibrate form of animal cruelty, even for insects. I have not brought any live insects on board for the sake of my curiosity either!
Mah584jr From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 495 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 4276 times:
I hope none of the ramp workers got stung there. Perhaps they should be equipped with beespray just in case. My question to any ramp workers out there: Have you ever experienced anything like this before? Perhaps a nest in the cargo hold or elsewhere.
Steeler83 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 8811 posts, RR: 19 Reply 16, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 4159 times:
Quoting TPAnx (Reply 3): IIRC, bees swarm where the queen lands...so...
Yeah that was my thought regarding that...
Quoting TPAnx (Reply 3): (This gives me a great idea for a horror film.."Bees On A Plane"...)
Lovely. Please post when you release that film. I'll BEE sure to BEE first in line!
Quoting Falstaff (Reply 13): In 1994 I had a spider on the hood ornament on my Buick Riviera
Quoting Falstaff (Reply 13): As far as bees on a plane, I have never seen anything like that before.
Same thing happened to my dad's car a while back, on an 80-something blue Ford LTD. A sworm of bees landed on the door, and a trip through the carwash took care of that! Perhaps something similar for this situation???
Do not bring stranger girt into your room. The stranger girt is dangerous, it will hurt your life.
MCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 8553 posts, RR: 14 Reply 17, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 4129 times:
Quoting Steeler83 (Reply 16): Perhaps something similar for this situation???
Yes, most definitely. now there's a reason for plane washes.
Plane wash: A 250ft by 200ft long building that stands 100ft in height off the ground for plane washing when the need arises. Similar to car wash but for planes only. This includes the tail too.
Steeler83 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 8811 posts, RR: 19 Reply 18, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 4118 times:
* Working at the carwash... Workin at the car-wash-ahh *
Can ya dig it?
Do not bring stranger girt into your room. The stranger girt is dangerous, it will hurt your life.
F9Animal From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 4736 posts, RR: 30 Reply 19, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 4006 times:
Quoting Mah584jr (Reply 15): I hope none of the ramp workers got stung there. Perhaps they should be equipped with beespray just in case. My question to any ramp workers out there: Have you ever experienced anything like this before? Perhaps a nest in the cargo hold or elsewhere.
About 5 months ago, I was standing underneath a 767, enjoying life. Suddenly, I look up and a swarm of bees came right down at me. This swarm was about as big as the damn plane! All I remember was me running my butt off to the office, not even thinking about my coworker standing next to me. I did glance back to see if they were chasing me, and I remember seeing my buddy with his hands up in the air like he was praying!!?? I did not get stung, but it scared the bejesus out of me. Worst of all, I am allergic to them. Smart move on my part to run and scream! Should I have taken a swat just to let them know how serious I was? LOL! My buddy said he was in shock, and never saw such an event. I have to be honest, I have never in my life seen it either. Something I can take back to the grave I guess. They flew along BFI, scared a few others along its path, and dissapeared.
Also in LAS, saw a huge nest of bees on A3. This was in 1995 or so. Back when Skywest had a decent sized operation flying out of LAS. Passengers stayed in one of the EMB-120's while the airport guys destroyed them.
DLX737200 From United States of America, joined May 2001, 1850 posts, RR: 23 Reply 22, posted (6 years 8 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 3786 times:
Quoting Mah584jr (Reply 15): I hope none of the ramp workers got stung there.
Quoting Cactushp (Reply 21): How did they get the bees off? Hose? sarcastic
Hello everyone. I was standing NEXT to Joey Collura when he took this photo. I took a photo as well but it is "waiting for Johan." I suppose because mine shows a little different angle, it wasn't an immediate HIT with the screeners. Here's it is: http://www.airliners.net/addphotos/big/ready/N825AWIDLELAX.jpg
Anyway, none of the rampers got stung and they got the bees off by simply pushing back, taxiing, and taking off. With the speed of takeoff and the wind velocity, they all came off. The operations guys taking us around that day told us this happens quite often at LAX simply from the queen bee landing somewhere and all the others following. Very interesting indeed. I ramp at MCO and have never seen this happen before at my place.
-Justin
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25 Vimanav: Yes.. the bees land wherever the queen lands. If you see carefully through the swarm you will see that they have settled down on the red wingtip light
26 FlyKev: Already been done. It was, well, without a doubt, the worse film ever. Named Killer Buzz (or Flying Virus), it started X list celbrities, bad acting,
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