A swarm of bees created quite a baseball buzzkill in the desert. The start of Tuesday night's game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks was delayed nearly two hours after a bee colony swarmed the top of the protective netting directly behind home plate. Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo
About 10 minutes before first pitch at Chase Field on Tuesday night, the ballpark’s vice president of operations, Mike Rock, got a call from a colleague. The wrong kind of buzz had overtaken the stadium. “We have bees landing on the net right behind home plate." “How many,” he asked. “Hundreds. No wait, thousands!” Rock immediately jumped into action. “I knew we had a problem,” he said. Indeed, with a swarm of bees wrapped around the top of the protective screen behind home plate, the start of...
The start of Tuesday night's game at Chase Field between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks was delayed after bees swarmed the top of the protective netting directly behind home plate.
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In general, honeybees are gentle creatures who rarely sting unless provoked or feel their hive or queen are under attack.
Chase Field was buzzing with more than just excited baseball fans.
The start of Tuesday's game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers was delayed by a bee colony at Chase Field.
The start of Tuesday's game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks was delayed after a bee colony swarmed the top of the protective netting directly behind home plate.
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