{"id":345361,"date":"2026-06-22T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:59:23","slug":"2-million-bees-escape-after-semitruck-overturns-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345361\/","title":{"rendered":"2 million bees escape after semitruck overturns in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.kxii.com\" class=\"google-source-button text-body btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Add Us On GoogleAdd as a preferred source on Google<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MAURICEVILLE, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/06\/22\/millions-bees-escape-after-semi-carrying-hives-overturns-southeast-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/06\/22\/millions-bees-escape-after-semi-carrying-hives-overturns-southeast-texas\/\">KBTX<\/a>\/Gray News) \u2013 Nearly 2 million bees escaped Sunday after a semitruck hauling beehives overturned in a rural part of southeast Texas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Photos shared online by Christie Ray of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/queenbeesupplyllc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/queenbeesupplyllc\/\">Queen Bee Supply<\/a> show beekeepers and first responders working together to secure the area where the crash happened.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Photos shared online by Christie Ray of Queen Bee Supply show beekeepers and first responders...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LWXNBIPWUBF75DUDUXFXBE45HM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Photos shared online by Christie Ray of Queen Bee Supply show beekeepers and first responders working together to secure the area where the crash happened.(Queen Bee Supply)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100092662689723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100092662689723\">Orange County Emergency Services District 4<\/a> shared posts on Facebook warning residents to stay indoors as crews worked to load the beehives onto other transport trucks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The beehives will be taken to a local honey farm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KBTX via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add Us On GoogleAdd as a preferred source on Google MAURICEVILLE, Texas (KBTX\/Gray News) \u2013 Nearly 2 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123210,123207,123206,123212,123205,123209,123204,27,29,123208,28,123211],"class_list":["post-345361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-beehives-transfered-spilled-onto-road","tag-christie-ray","tag-colony-drive","tag-how-did-the-bees-escape-in-texas","tag-millions-of-bees-escape","tag-orange-county-emergency-services-district-4","tag-queen-bee-supply","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-mauriceville","tag-texas-news","tag-where-did-bees-escape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}