From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: bees on the wing
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:05:27 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: <ronkean at juno.com>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: [WSFA] bees on the wing

>
> According to a recent news report, a truck in Kansas overturned carrying
> 25 million bees.  A quick check on the internet suggests that 25 million
> bees would weigh about two tons.
>
> Suppose that bees inside a closed truck were all flying around inside the
> cargo space.  Would the truck then register less weight on a truck scale
> than if the bees were just sitting on the floor of the cargo container?

Didn't this get discussed at a WSFA meeting earlier this year?

--Ted White