Approximately 250 million bees escaped after a semi-truck rolled over in Washington state.

According to the New York Post, the truck was transporting 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives when it crashed in Whatcom County.

The truck crashed on Weidkamp Road near Lynden around 4 a.m. on Friday.

"Shortly after 9 a.m. the hives came off the truck, which freed the bees. Master beekeepers are on scene, and others are on the way, to assist in re-setting the box hives. The plan is to allow the bees to re-hive and find their queen bee. That should occur within the next 24-48 hours. The goal is to save as many of the bees as possible," the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office stated on Facebook.

"We're literally grabbing a bee box and then grabbing the frames that contain the honey, the bees and the brood, putting them back in the box and restacking them on pallets to hopefully have some survival rate to work with here," local beekeeper Derek Condit told KOMO News as swarms of bees surrounded him.

"When they said 200 million bees, they meant it," Matt Klein, the Deputy Director of Emergency Management for the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office, told KOMO News.

Klein was stung a dozen times and still had stingers "attached to his ears" late Friday night, the Washington Emergency Management Division revealed on X.

"But they're honeybees, so the sting isn't as severe as some other bees, so, so far, everybody is fine," Klein told KOMO News earlier in the day.