A sad bee story

[Mmathis]

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Bees swarm, kill man cutting grass

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/09/bee-attack-death/28771365/

(I didn't know how to link this, so hope I did it right with a copy & paste.)

@Big Lou I thought of you with your past bee problem. So glad nothing like this happened -- what a sad, freak accident!

@addy1 At least the bees weren't the aggressive kind, and they were able to remove the hive without further incident.

 

[Big Lou]

Very, very sad. There was a similar incident near Waco before our massive Africanized bee situation. While Africanized bee colonies are deadly and must be destroyed Cathy and I are strong proponents of safe honey bee removal. Honey bees are a critical part of nature.

 

[Dave 54]

Very, very sad. There was a similar incident near Waco before our massive Africanized bee situation. While Africanized bee colonies are deadly and must be destroyed Cathy and I are strong proponents of safe honey bee removal. Honey bees are a critical part of nature.

Acctually Big Lou the most recent documentry Val and I caught on these killer bees is the more agressive queens are taken out and the experts are seeing a marked change in the behavour brought about by less agressive queens

Dave

 

[addy1]

We are far enough north the Africanized are not up in our area. But we do get an aggressive hive. Nothing like in the story. We did requeen to cool a hive off it worked great.
Other factors, storm coming, lack of nectar etc affect them

 

[addy1]

But if we did drop a hive,a frame of bees they would swarm us. We are always fully suited up working on them

 

[HARO]

On a more positive note, I heard on the radio last night that the province of Ontario is the first to take a step to slow down the destruction of honeybees! They will limit the acreage that can be planted with insecticide-treated corn (I think it was) to 80% of what it is now, by 2017. One small step for man, .....
John

 

[Big Lou]

I could not find the exact figures but we had tens of thousands of Afraicanized bees. A massive infestation.

 

[Tula]

A very sad story indeed We once had a family that attended our nursery school and the father was a well liked fire fighter. He was mowing the lawn and must have disturbed a hive, was swarmed and died from the attack. I don't think they were honey bees though.

 

[Big Lou]

sad

 

[Mmathis]

A very sad story indeed We once had a family that attended our nursery school and the father was a well liked fire fighter. He was mowing the lawn and must have disturbed a hive, was swarmed and died from the attack. I don't think they were honey bees though.

How awful!

I used to work with a lady who was doing something like bush-hogging or plowing some land they owned. Her tractor encountered an underground hornet nest [I think it was hornets]. She was attacked and stung pretty severely, but fortunately, lived to tell about it. That was the first I knew that hornets [or whatever they were] built underground nests! WOW!

 

[Tula]

How awful!

I used to work with a lady who was doing something like bush-hogging or plowing some land they owned. Her tractor encountered an underground hornet nest [I think it was hornets]. She was attacked and stung pretty severely, but fortunately, lived to tell about it. That was the first I knew that hornets [or whatever they were] built underground nests! WOW!

It was a terrible tragedy. He left behind two very young daughters (pre-schooler and toddler) and a wife. I guess the best thing to do, is exercise caution if we know about a hive ( call in a bee keeper to relocate it), but the scary thing is underground nests and ones we don't see!

 

[Mmathis]

It was a terrible tragedy. He left behind two very young daughters (pre-schooler and toddler) and a wife. I guess the best thing to do, is exercise caution if we know about a hive ( call in a bee keeper to relocate it), but the scary thing is underground nests and ones we don't see!

Yes, and be observant, as well. Keep an eye open for bee [wasp, etc.] comings & goings. The bees that killed the gentleman in this original story was a "hidden hive." I don't think he knew it was there. That's almost like @Big Lou's situation where the hive was inside his walls. But I don't think anyone, certainly not Lou, had any idea just how extensive that hive was.

 

[addy1]

Bees will be above ground, wasps nest under ground, in rocks, I watch for any flying when I mow. They come out as a cloud first, if one stings the attack starts.

 

[Big Lou]

Hornets build huge nests in trees, attics, house eves and pretty sure other places.

 

[addy1]

Yellow jackets like ground nests, I have run into a few, luckily saw them before I really disturbed them. Skunks dig up their nests. Dumped a bucket of dirt on one large nest.