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Millions of bees used in pollination die in HEALTH

airline shipping DOCTOR ON DUTY

Oranjestad
Honey, said that she had Hospital 7:00 pm / 10:00pm
received previous ship- Tel. 527 4000
ments of honeybees on
Delta from Sacramento, San Nicolas
California, to Anchorage Imsan 24 hours
via Seattle many times. Tel.524 8833
The airline told her that last Women in Difficulties
weekend's shipment didn't PHARMACY ON DUTY
fit on the plane, so they Oranjestad:
were rerouted through At- Oduber tel. 582 1780
lanta. San Nicolas:
McElrea said her supplier in Seroe preto tel. 584 4833
Women in Difficulties
California will replace the OTHER
shipment, which was worth Dental Clinic 587 9850
about $48,000. She said she Blood Bank Aruba 587 0002
is hoping Delta provides Urgent Care 586 0448
some help, although she Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
acknowledged that ship- +297 588 0539
ping live animals carries Women in Difficulties
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In this Sept. 1, 2015, photo, a honeybee works atop gift zinnia in Accord, N.Y. Police Tipline 11141
Associated Press Ambulancia 911
Fire Dept. 115
By The Associated Press according to The New York declined to make anyone Red Cross 582 2219
About 5 million honeybees Times. available for an interview.
bound for Alaska last week- Delta called it an "unfortu- The beekeeper in Atlanta, TAXI SERVICES
end got waylaid when nate situation." Edward Morgan, called Taxi Tas 587 5900
Delta Air Lines routed them In an emailed statement, more than a dozen people Prof. Taxi 588 0035
through Atlanta, where Delta spokeswoman Cath- to go to the airport and try Taxi D.T.S. 587 2300
Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
most of the bees died after erine Morrow told The Asso- to save any bees that were A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
being left for hours in crates ciated Press on Friday that still alive. Women in Difficulties
on the ground during hot that the airline "was made "It's devastating to see that TRAVEL INFO
weather. aware of the shipment many dead," Georgia bee-
The bees were the first of situation ... and quickly en- keeper Julia Mahood told Aruba Airport 524 2424
two shipments ordered by gaged the appropriate in- Atlanta broadcaster WABE. American Airlines 582 2700
Alaska beekeeper Sarah ternal teams to assess the "Just clumps of dead bees Avianca 588 0059
McElrea from a distributor situation. We have taken that had no chance be- Jet Blue 588 2244
Surinam
582 7896
in California. The bees were immediate action to imple- cause they were left out-
to be used to pollinate ap- ment new measures to en- side with no food and ba- Women in Difficulties
ple orchards and nurseries sure events of this nature sically got lost in Delta's AID FOUNDATIONS
in Alaska, where they are do not occur in the future." machinery." FAVI- Visually Impaired
not native. Morrow said Delta apolo- McElrea, who runs a busi- Tel. 582 5051
But the bees were bumped gized to McElrea. The airline ness called Sarah's Alaska Alcoholics Anonymous
from their original route to Tel. 736 2952
Anchorage, Alaska, and Narcotics Anonymous
instead put on a flight to Tel. 583 8989
Atlanta, where they were Fundacion Contra Violencia
to be transferred to an Relacional Tel. 583 5400
Anchorage-bound plane, Centre for Diabetes
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according to published re- Child Abuse Prevention
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McElrea said she worried Quota Club Tel. 525 2672
when the 800-pound ship- Women in Difficulties
ment didn't arrive in Atlan- General Info
ta in time to make the con- Phone Directory Tel. 118
necting flight. The next day,
she said, Delta told her
some bees had escaped,
so airline workers put the
crates holding the bees
outside a Delta cargo bay.
In a panic, McElrea
reached a beekeeper in
Atlanta, who rushed to the
airport and discovered that
many of the bees had died
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