An excerpt from a story in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle today….

A tractor-trailer packed with honeybees rolled over on U.S. Highway 191 north of West Yellowstone Tuesday afternoon, spilling bee hives and swaths of the insects onto the ground.

“There was a ton of bees all over the road and all over the air,” Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Derek Brown said. “Too many bees for me.”

A Highway Patrol trooper was stung, Brown said, although no one was seriously injured.

The driver of the Minnesota-based truck was traveling south at 2:40 p.m. when the vehicle overturned on a curve 10 miles north of West Yellowstone, just inside the border of Yellowstone National Park, Brown said.

Traffic was diverted from West Yellowstone through Ennis on 287 for several hours - those fishing the upper Madison from Bozeman drove a bit longer yesterday.

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