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Beekeepers really do mail entire colonies

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Nothing brightens a mail carrier's day quite like a vibrating, buzzing parcel of terror. Beekeepers regularly order entirely new colonies via standard post. They are shipped in mesh wooden boxes, ensuring the postal workers are acutely aware they are holding thousands of stinging insects.

Beekeepers really do mail entire colonies
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