Millions of honeybees were left to bake to death in a crate

More than five million honeybees were left to die in the hot sun, after a Delta Airlines shipment bound for Alaska was diverted and left on hot tarmac in Atlanta.

Weighing about 800lb, the 200 crates of honeybees were the first of two shipments being sent from Sacramento, California to Anchorage in Alaska.

There, more than 300 beekeepers were waiting for their pollination services in apple orchards.

Previous shipments had made it to Alaska, on Delta Airlines flights that went from Sacramento to Seattle, then on to Anchorage, but this trip was diverted. 

Edward Morgan was one of the Atlanta beekeepers who rushed to save millions of dying…