MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Bartlett Bee Whisperer lived up to his name, remaining cool, calm, and collected when he was sparmed with some 30,000 bees without any protective gear.
David Glover, also known as the Bartlett Bee Whisperer, was called to Thompson Machinery in Memphis, TN, on Friday to remove a colony of honey bees that had taken up residence in one of their excavators.
“They just got the excavator in and are in the process of cleaning it up and rehabbing it, making sure everything’s still functioning. One of the guys dropped the bottom plate off and saw them and said, hey, we’ve got a problem,” said Glover.
Glover got a look at the bees in the bottom of the excavator and was in the process of bringing his equipment around in his truck when the bees began flying out of the excavator…