tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83406446556127349932024-03-13T15:48:00.482-04:00Breaking Bee NewsALLFloridaBeeRemoval.com's breaking news about bee sting events.ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-71456008769438055792013-09-27T16:33:00.004-04:002013-09-27T16:33:34.644-04:00Colony of Honey Bees Kills Dog In Plantation, FLA.<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PLANTATION (CBSMiami) – An American Foxhound died after being attacked by a swarm of bees in Plantation Friday afternoon.</span></div>
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It happened on East Acre drive. The family dog known as ’Babydoll’ was stung more than one hundred times according to witnesses</span></div>
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the home at 640 E. Acre Drive. Firefighters had to remove part of the
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The dog’s owner Ted Delgaizo said he’s sad for his loss but glad his kids weren’t attacked.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“My dog was 60 pounds, and it killed a 60 pound dog. My four year
old son weighs 25 pounds. I have an 8 and 6 year old who were in
school. I’m sad for my dog but grateful it wasn’t one of my kids.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After trying to rescue the dog, Plantation firefighters applied foam
on the back of the house where the hive was located. The foam
application was able to subdue the bees quickly. Firefighters first had
to remove a portion of the wall to expose the hive.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The dog was in the backyard when neighbor Betty Chenet noticed it was
covered in bees. She tried to spray a garden hose on the dog but then
she says the angry bees turned on her.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“It was scary. I was traumatized. I had never seen something like this.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chenet said when the bees came after her she jumped in her pool and
ran in the house. But the bees continued to follow her into her house.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“I feel bad I couldn’t save the dog.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Plantation Police Officer responding to the emergency call, didn’t fare any better.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“He was stung 30 to 40 times in the face, neck and arms,” said Detective Robert Rettig of the Plantation Police Department.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Neighbor Philip Garretson heard the commotion and also tried to rescue the dog. He said he was stung up to 30 times.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“You could see the swarm like a cloud over the dog. I hit them with
water and they came after me. They came after me immediately,” said
Garretson.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“As sad as I am I lost my dog, it save my kids life because it could
have been my kids. We had no idea the bees were there,” said Ted
Delgaizo.</span>ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-35554661731522407762012-05-18T13:42:00.000-04:002012-05-18T13:42:12.902-04:00Honey Bee swarm invades MLB Baseball Game!This was cool! A honey bee swarm landed (alighted) right near the Colorado Rockies Dugout at Coors' Field! In Colorado, wild honey bees are relatively low in numbers (compared to Florida anyway, which is LOADED with wild, African Honey Bees!!), so the right call was made. A beekeeper used a 'bee-vac' to vacuum the honey bees up, and he will either add the bees to an existing hive box of his, or start a new colony. Bravo! Check out the video and cool play by play!<br />
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — WFTV news </div>
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Thousands of bees are invading and stinging residents at a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/s/news-voulsia-county/" name="Volusia County" title="Volusia County News">Volusia County</a> mobile home community.<br />
The bees live on a property in Deltona, across Interstate 4, but they're drawn to the Country Village community pool off Hollow Ridge Drive, residents said.<br />
The management company at the mobile home park said it is doing everything it can, but the bees keep coming back.<br />
It seems like the honey bees are in search of water, swarming bird baths and the community pool.<br />
“You can't relax. It's no fun,” said one resident. “You can't, because you got to watch out for the bee on the top of the water."<br />
Bees can be seen swarming the sides of the pool and the deck for water. It's a problem community managers said is getting worse with the lack of rain, and they said no chemicals or spray can keep them away.<br />
To keep the bees away from the pool, the managers added more bird baths and hired a bee expert.<br />
The expert pinpointed their source to more than 100 beehives directly across I-4. They belong to Horace Bell Honey, based in Deland, which refuses to move them.<br />
The community management filed a complaint with the city of Deltona and with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/s/news-voulsia-county/" name="Volusia County" title="Volusia County News">Volusia County</a>. The city of Deltona is checking to see if the honey company is in fact allowed to keep the bees on the vacant land.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/honey-bee-invasion-stirring-problems-volusia-co-mo/nN6yT/">See the rest of the story(including video) here </a></div>ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-88196319884654408782012-05-13T19:54:00.002-04:002012-05-13T19:54:25.861-04:00Swarm of Bees attacks boy<strong>(Townsville Bulletin) </strong><br />
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<strong>A TEENAGE boy was stung more than 100 times in a freak bee attack at Pallarenda yesterday.</strong><br />
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Royce Abraham, 15, was bushwalking with his father, brother and two others at Bald Rock when he was attacked by the swarm of bees. It is believed the teen disturbed the hive as he walked past, with the European honey bees stinging him largely on his face, neck and ears.<br />
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Royce's father Gary Abraham said he picked out at least 100 stingers from his son.<br />
"They swarmed him and he cried out and tried to get away," he said.<br />
"He was in a lot of pain. He rated it as eight or nine on the scale.<br />
"It wasn't very good watching him getting hoed into."<br />
Fortunately, the Pimlico State High School student didn't have any allergic reactions to the stings, and was taken in a conscious state to Townsville Hospital for treatment.<br />
Mr Abraham said the attack was not likely to discourage his younger son from the outdoors.<br />
"He's an adventurous, outdoorsy guy - always out and about," he said.<br />
"He'll be keen to do it again, he'll just be a bit more cautious I think."<br />
James Cook University biologist Professor Simon Robson, an expert on bee behaviour, said he had never heard of an attack of this level in the area.<br />
"Bees usually keep to themselves," Prof Robson said.<br />
"They've been bred to produce honey and they're relatively calm.<br />
"Honey bees are not like the killer bees from South America."<br />
Prof Robson said Royce could have died from so many bee stings.<br />
"He's very lucky boy, that must have hurt," he said.<br />
"One hundred stings are a lot of toxins; he must be a good, robust person and he's done very well to come out the other side.<br />
"Some people will have one bee sting and it will put them into anaphylactic shock; he's clearly not allergic to bee stings."<br />
Prof Robson said the incident sounded like a "really unfortunate accident".<br />
<a href="http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2012/05/14/329741_news.html">Read the rest of the story here:</a>ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-57469635228034939382012-03-12T16:58:00.002-04:002012-03-12T17:03:07.425-04:00Two girls fatally injured in Africanized Bee Attack<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica,arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">Two young girls die from killer bee stings</span></span><br />
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<span class="story_dl">COLOMONCAGUA, Honduras,--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Two young girls died in Honduras after they were attacked by a swarm of Africanized bees, officials said.<br />
The bees had built a hive in an avocado tree behind a home in the village of San Antonio near Colomoncagua, Honduras, La Prensa reported Monday.<br />
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The bees were allegedly provoked when a boy threw a rock at the hive.<br />
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</h3></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Honeybees and their keepers are both facing threats. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The bees help make Florida one of the top-five honey producers in the country, with an annual worth of $13 million. But a strange phenomenon of disappearing bees has caused the honeybee population to decline, jeopardizing the livelihoods of commercial honey makers. One honey producer says he is losing thousands of hives a year because of the die-offs that recent studies link to insecticides. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Bees don't want to make honey anymore," said Bill Rhodes, owner of Bill Rhodes Honey Co. in Umatilla. "I'm trying to keep from going bankrupt." </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Beekeeper hobbyists, meanwhile, help fill some of the void created by large losses of bees. Their bees help the environment by pollinating gardens and groves, and the keepers get a little honey from their hobbies. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But some small-scale beekeepers are being told "not in my backyard." Several Florida counties and cities have banned or restricted beekeeping, and the Florida State Beekeepers Association is pushing for new legislation that would leave beekeeping to the expertise of the state. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Senate Bill 1132, sponsored by Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, would establish that the Florida Department of Agriculture has sole power to regulate beehives, and prevent counties and municipalities from enacting beekeeping laws. The bill has passed three committees and last week was placed on the calendar to be heard by the full Senate. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The bill primarily protects non-commercial beekeepers in residential areas, said Gary Ranker, president of the beekeepers association. He said 73 percent of the association's members are small-scale beekeepers who have a handful of hives in residential areas and are not trying to make a living at beekeeping.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dailycommercial.com/News/LakeCounty/021812beelaws" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">read the rest of CHRIS GERBASI'S article at the Daily Commercial</a> </div><div style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Entomologist's Comment:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A well researched article by Chris Gerbasi that adequately explains some of the pressures both commercial and residential beekeepers are facing these days. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While some commercial beekeepers are experiencing high mortality with their bee hives, many others are managing well. Yes, the numbers of colonies lost are higher than experienced a decade ago, but, with increased care and applied treatments to bee colonies, most seem to be weathering this recent malady well enough.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And while it seems to be in vogue these days to blame Colony Collapse Disorder on Nicitonoid pesticide use, current research is leading us away from these pesticides as likely culprits. Yes, they can cause mortality, but usually it's a very quick effect and emulates a more classic pesticide poisoning. Drupke's research implicates the current method of seed coatings and the way seeds are planted in fields, but only in acute toxic events, not in CCD.Changing the seed coating methodology will likely reduce the events that beekeepers have been seeing when placing bees near corn and other crop plantings. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Even the current boogey-corporations, Bayer & Monsanto, have been reaching out to the beekeeping industry, offering to investigate and perform research into effects of these insecticides. If you think about it, it makes no business sense to sell and promote products that cause great harm to beekeeping, as eventually research would show the effects & implicate the pesticide. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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There were hundreds of dead bees leftover from Tuesday.<br />
“Bees were everywhere and coming after me. I didn't know what to do. I took my stuff off and took off,” said Latroy Campbell, 17.<br />
On Tuesday, Campbell ran from a swarm of bees coming from the 7200 block of West Yucca Street.<br />
The teen was stung multiple times so was a firefighter.<br />
Brewer said admits four years ago she kept Italian honey bees but never Africanized killer bees. She went on to say that didn't know the bees were on her property.<br />
A Peoria code enforcement officer stopped by Brewer’s home Wednesday.<br />
Brewer told the officer things got ugly when her husband went to move their old bee-keeping box.<br />
She told 3TV she wasn’t raising the bees for honey.<br />
The story is a little different from what Peoria Deputy Fire Chief Rick Picard presented.<br />
“This was an amateur bee keeper and he had hives all over his backyard,” he said.<br />
A firefighter climbed over Brewer’s back wall and got quite the surprise.<br />
“[He was] coming over the wall and disturbed the bees and, of course, they swarmed all over him. He was almost covered with all the bees when he came out,” Picard said,<br />
The deputy fire chief wants amateur bee keepers to buzz off of residential neighborhoods.<br />
“In close neighborhoods, just like there is all around the Valley, it’s against code to do it. Because people walking down the road will be attacked,” Picard said.<br />
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<a href="http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Homeowner-says-she-had-no-idea-killer-bees-were-on-her-property-140067193.html">Read the rest of the story here </a><br />
.ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com0Peoria, AZ, USA33.5805955 -112.2373779000000133.3782925 -112.35962040000001 33.7828985 -112.11513540000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-30417567511583245032012-02-22T11:53:00.000-05:002012-02-22T11:53:23.220-05:00Man, 70, dead after setting fire to wasp nest in houseCEBU CITY—A 70-year-old man in a mountain village here died in a fire that he started to stop wasps from building a nest in his house, authorities said.<br />
Alfonso Lopez, who suffered severe burns, was trying to drive away wasps that were building a nest in his house in Barangay Babag which were made of light materials.<br />
According to Timoteo Gabisay, village councilor, Lopez was alone at home when he lit a pile of leaves hoping that the smoke from the burning leaves would drive the wasps away.<br />
The wasps had been building a nest on a bamboo wall of the house. The fire that Lopez started, however, grew and started to burn the wall, according to Gabisay.<br />
Lopez tried to put the fire out as neighbors shouted at him urging him to flee his burning house.<br />
The 70-year-old man, however, didn’t immediately flee as he tried to carry food with him.<br />
Lopez was found lying on his stomach with severe burns on the back just outside his burned house.<br />
The village was so remote that firemen failed to reach the burning house hours after the fire started.<br />
Gabisay said he believed Lopez, who was known to have difficulty walking as a result of old age, tripped on his way out of his burning house<br />
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Officials say, a bee keeper had been called to a vacant house near Stapley and McKellips to get rid of the bees.<br />
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The bee keeper's wife and kids decided to go with him on the call.<br />
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The wife and kids were attacked while he was fighting the bees.<br />
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A neighbor heard screaming and came outside and hosed them down.<br />
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The bee keeper's wife was stung more than 70 times.<br />
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The kids, a boy and girl, were stung more than 40 times each.<br />
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</div>PEORIA - Fivechildren are recovering after being stung by a swarm of bees Thursday afternoon, near 91st Ave and Peoria.<br />
They were chased by hundreds of bees and stung at least a dozen times -- but firefighters say it could've been much worse.<br />
"It was a large swarm of bees that attacked the kids," says a Peoria firefighter. "They were stung around the head, face, arms, exposed areas mostly.<br />
Firefighters say the kids were playing with an irrigation box when they were attacked. They ran a quarter mile down a parking lot and asked workers at Shower Doors & More for help.<br />
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"We heard the screaming, there was tons of screaming. We didn't know what was going on, then we started clueing in," says Kim Beardon. She called 911.<br />
There were five kids stung, ranging in age from 5 to 14.<br />
"They were trying to take off as much clothing as possible to get the bees out of their clothes and hair," says Beardon.<br />
Four of the five kids were taken to the hospital as a precaution and should be released soon.<br />
The owner of the complex will have to hire a bee removal company to kill the bees.<br />
Firefighters say the lesson here is to never lift an irrigation box if you see bees flying around it.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Morris Robert Stretch, 62, was collecting firewood in a forest in the Marlborough Sounds with his nephew Craig Wilson, 49, when the pair disturbed a massive underground wasps' nest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Mr Stretch, who had only just moved to the picturesque Kenepuru Sound area last month, told his nephew to run for it into the forest to escape the killer swarm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> The retired cleaner sprinted towards a nearby road where he was overcome by the "aggressive" swarm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When his nephew came to find him moments later, Mr Stretch was dead on the road - with dozens of wasps still covering his face, neck, and body. Mr Wilson tried to resuscitate him with CPR and was helped by a passerby, but Mr Stretch passed away at the scene before emergency services arrived.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="advert" id="DivContentRect" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now, his family have destroyed the nest, and local police have issued a public warning on wasps' nests in the Nelson and Marlborough Sounds area, which is regarded as having some of the densest populations of wasps in the world.</span></div><div class="advert" style="position: relative;"></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Mr Stretch's body was returned to Kereru marae in his home region of Manawatu today (Monday) and will be laid to rest in a tangi on Wednesday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> His niece Darcia Mangakahiao travelled back from Kenepuru Sound today and paid tribute to "a neat bloke, a real family man."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> She said the family, especially her brother Mr Wilson who was also stung in the attack and required hospital treatment, are stunned by the freak death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "Everyone ... friends and family are absolutely devastated to lose him. And they are all devastated at exactly how he died,"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Ms Mangakahiao said her uncle had gone to live with his sister Mona Wilson and her husband Jim in Kenepuru to "have a change of lifestyle" and spend time with his southern family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> She told APNZ how her brother and uncle had ventured into the forest at the back of the family property on Saturday morning to cut firewood and go fishing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "They were walking along and uncle Morris noticed he had stood on a wasps' nest and they became aggressive straight away," she said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "Uncle Morris told my brother to make a run for it. He ran one way - towards the trees - and my uncle ran towards the road.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "When my brother went to find him, he came across him lying on the road, dead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "When Craig opened his shirt to do CPR, he was still covered in wasps. They were all over his face, neck, and chest - everywhere."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Ms Mangakahiao revealed that it wasn't the "hundreds, if not more" stings estimated to have been inflicted on her uncle's body that killed him, but a massive heart attack.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "The coroner told us that the wasps caused him to have a heart attack and that was what killed him," she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "To have that number attack you ... you can hardly imagine what it must have been like.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "He was a neat bloke, a real family man. He loved all his family - nieces, nephews, and they all loved him to pieces more like a cousin than an uncle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "He had become a christian and was a very staunch person. But he was also a very fun-loving, outgoing person. He kept the family together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "My mum is very cut up. He was a great help to my mum and dad and they'll definitely miss him."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Ms Mangakahiao said Mr Stretch had worked as a cleaner in Palmerston North before retiring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> He is survived by his daughter Rangitaiki, 42, son Justin, 18, and two grandchildren.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Senior Constable Andrew Wilson of Havelock police said the horror attack happened at around 9am on Saturday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> He said Mr Stretch had suffered a "significant amount" of stings, which amounted to "hundreds, if not more."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> The officer said: "Wasps are aggressive and can sting hundreds, if not thousands of times, per individual. So when you've got a significant number attacking your body, you can hardly imagine how horrible it must have been."</span><br />
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</div></div><div class="storyText">(AP) LYNDEN, Wash. - A Washington state fire chief says a man dumped gasoline on a beehive in a tree in retaliation for a bee sting, then ignited the hive, causing an explosion heard throughout his suburban neighborhood just a few miles south of the Canadian border.<br />
Lynden chief Gary Baar <a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/08/29/2161261/lynden-man-causes-explosion-after.html">tells the Bellingham Herald</a> that the Sunday night fire caused a large "whoosh," singed the tree and killed the bees but no people were hurt.<br />
Baar says the man's friend had been stung earlier in the day.<br />
The fire chief says, "The correct way to do that is to call a beekeeper."<br />
Firefighters explained that to the homeowner, and the newspaper says it doesn't appear that that the man will be cited.</div>ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-55260051566424876842011-09-29T10:06:00.001-04:002011-09-29T10:06:28.922-04:00Ft. Worth, TX: Bee Stings shorten Men’s golf tournamentThe final round of the <span data-scayt_word="UTA" data-scaytid="3">UTA</span>/<span data-scayt_word="Waterchase" data-scaytid="4">Waterchase</span> Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas, was canceled last Tuesday for one of the more bizarre reasons you will ever hear about. Less than two hours after the K-State golfers had started play, a tree limb holding a beehive fell to the ground near the 18th green, sending more than 7,000 bees into a frenzy. At least a dozen different competitors were stung by the bees, and after a lengthy delay in which a beekeeper was summoned to evaluate the situation, the continuing threat caused officials to cancel the final round and reduce the tournament to the 36 holes played on Monday.<br />
"It was very unfortunate because each of our guys had played five or six holes and our top four scorers were around even par," said head coach Tim Norris. "This is my first experience of something like this happening, but I know our guys are excited to get back out on the course in a couple of weeks at our home <span data-scayt_word="tournament.”" data-scaytid="5">tournament."</span><br />
As for the bee-shortened tournament results, the Wildcats carded a 36-hole score of 19-over-par 595, which gave them a seventh place finish out of 19 schools competing in the tournament. For the second consecutive week, the Wichita State Shockers came out on top, this time with a 36-hole score of 6-under-par 570. They finished four strokes ahead of second-place Sam Houston State.<br />
Individually, the Wildcats were led by freshman Kyle Weldon, who was making his debut on the five-man scoring roster. Weldon recorded a score of 1-under-par 143 in the two rounds on Monday, leaving him in fifth place and only four strokes behind 1st-place finisher Rafael Becker of Wichita State. The fifth-place finish is the highest for a K-State golfer so far in the young season.<br />
Other Wildcats competing in the tournament included junior Curtis <span data-scayt_word="Yonke" data-scaytid="6">Yonke</span>, who finished 4-strokes-over-par 148, tying him for 24th place overall. Finishing two strokes behind him, and tied for 36th place individually, was senior Kyle Smell. Ben <span data-scayt_word="Juffer" data-scaytid="7">Juffer</span>, junior, tied for 70th place with a 12-over-par finish. Fellow junior Chase <span data-scayt_word="Chamberlin" data-scaytid="8">Chamberlin</span> rounded out the scoring for the Wildcats by carding a 36-hole score of 15-over-par 159. He tied<br />
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Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 </div>BESUT, Malaysia - A five-year-old kindergarten pupil died after he was stung by bees while on his way home to Kampung Pengkalan Nyireh here.<br />
The victim, Tengku Hafizul Hafiq Tengku Anuar, was riding pillion when the incident occurred at about 1pm on Sunday. <br />
It is learnt that as he and his mother neared their house, a beehive suddenly fell from a nearby tree onto their motorcycle. <br />
Rakiah Ismail, 31, said she had to stop the motorcyle after they were attacked by the bees. <br />
"I told Hafizul to run as fast as he could to a neighbour's house. <br />
"However, he was already stung by more than 50 bees," she said adding that Hafizul died four hours after the incident at Besut Hospital. <br />
"His whole face was swollen and he lost consciousness soon after the attack. <br />
"I never thought I would lose him like this," she said. <br />
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"From what I understand, they did some CPR and advanced life procedures with the paramedic, rendering care and drug therapy," Roselle Fire Chief Bob Tinucci said. <br />
"I did see them bring Bruce out administering CPR and oxygen, so I knew it was something pretty serious," said Mike Weflan, neighbor. <br />
Weflan was at home Monday evening when he says the large response of fire trucks and ambulances blocked off the street. Attempts to resuscitate Madiar were unsuccessful and he was taken to Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, where he was pronounced dead. <br />
Weflan says he knew Madiar casually, but that he was a long time resident of the neighborhood.<br />
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<a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8370134">See the rest of the story here</a>ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-87734278691790314972011-09-22T10:38:00.000-04:002011-09-22T10:38:34.330-04:00How Careless can we get about feral Honey Bee colonies?<h1>How careless can we get?</h1><div class="meta"> September 22, 2011 | By <a href="http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/author/gita/" rel="author" title="Posts by KNews">KNews</a> | Filed Under <a href="http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/category/editorial/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Editorial">Editorial</a> </div>Africanised bees have struck again and they have claimed yet another human life. These were bees that came into this country from neighbouring Brazil and have corrupted the hives of the ordinary honey bees we once had.<br />
As their name suggests, they came from Africa either by human hand or by way of experimentation. Some Brazilian beekeeper allowed one hive to escape and Guyana is now their home. These bees have spread all over the country contaminating hives and making their own hives.<br />
The movement of animals and insects is nothing unusual. What is unusual is that people through their uncaring ways have allowed these insects to prosper. People must have seen them trying to invade some lodging or some clump of bush or even some old discarded vehicle, and did nothing.<br />
In the case of the recent Eccles incident in which a man died, people saw the bees setting up residence in four different locations and did nothing. In the end the bees set themselves up in a fashionable house in the neighbourhood, expanding their hive and when things got out of hand, moving to other locations nearby.<br />
This speaks a lot for people in a community. There have been warnings from the outset that should people see bees swarming in a community they should call the Ministry of Agriculture. However, the attitude that if something is in no way affecting us at this time then we do nothing.<br />
This was the case on the Essequibo Coast in some villages where the bees eventually struck with deadly effect. The same thing happened in the residential community of Queenstown, Georgetown. The bees were seen entering the community and installing themselves in an old car. When a man, after some time, decided to week the area he angered them with fatal consequences for some dogs. Human beings were also attacked but they managed to survive.<br />
We have reported on numerous incidents of these bee attacks. In another East Bank Demerara community a man and a horse died.<br />
The cold hard fact is that we contribute to the disaster because through our selfish actions we condemn a community to disaster, in this case, attacks from the bees. Similar selfish actions actually saw armed gangs attacking homes, safe in the knowledge that people would remain ensconced in their homes while their neighbours are being terrorized.<br />
In those communities where people respond en masse criminals tend to stay away. People do what was always the case, “Look out for each other.”<br />
Sparking electric wires trigger some response because a fire may not be confined to a single home in the area but this community-minded action is not often transferred to other cases.<br />
But there is more to this. The Ministry of Agriculture has no one who can respond and deal with cases of bee invasion. People needing help must call private individuals. True, the Agriculture Ministry would provide the numbers but since these are private individuals there is no guarantee that a bee control worker would respond in a timely manner.<br />
Within the past few years, six of these people have been killed. There was no compensation from the government because the conclusion was that the operator went there in his private capacity.<br />
Given that bees have been no stranger to Guyana for decades one would have expected that the Ministry of Agriculture would have had a section that could have been dealing with bees. And the people of Guyana, cognizant that the government offers assistance to the public at no cost, expect the same when it comes to protection from insects such as the Africanised bees.<br />
In this case the private operator who arrived there was accosted, threatened and even chased with an implement for taking too long to arrive. No one paid him and the expectation is that he would always be there to respond to a bee crisis. This may not be the case.<br />
The onus is therefore for the people to be vigilant for their own survival. There will be other instances of the Africanised bees entering other communities and there are those communities in which they have already set up hives. People need to take action, even if for their own safety.<br />
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<tr> <td valign="top"> <span class="small"> Written by Whitney Persaud </span> </td> </tr>
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<tr> <td valign="top"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> SHEIK Iman Hassan, the 48-year-old mechanic who was attacked by a swarm of killer bees, at his Lot 238 Anaida Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara address, on Friday has died.<br />
He and his co-worker were attending to a customer’s vehicle at the time of the attack and Hassan’s wife, Savatri, said he was left lying on the road for about five minutes before being transported to the Balwant Singh Hospital, in East Street, Georgetown, where he succumbed later the same afternoon. </span> <strong><div class="img_caption left" style="float: left; width: 105px;"><img align="left" class="caption" height="167" src="http://www.guyanachronicle.com/site/images/stories/SEPTEMBER/9-21-2011/hassan.gif" title="DEAD: Sheikh Imran Hassan, 48" width="105" />DEAD: Sheikh Imran Hassan, 48</div></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The woman said the two men tried to fight off the insects. He put his head in a barrel of water and the other man hid in the car on which they were working.<br />
Savatri said she went to assist them but, in fear of her own life, she abandoned the effort, noting that the bees were there for between half an hour to 45 minutes, during which no one else intervened.<br />
“The carpenters in the areas tried their best to help; they even lit a fire to try and smoke them out but their efforts were unsuccessful,” the grieving woman said. <br />
The widowed woman said it was the first time that such an incident occurred in the area. She is left to mourn with three children.</span><strong><div class="img_caption right" style="float: right; width: 240px;"><img align="right" class="caption" src="http://www.guyanachronicle.com/site/images/stories/SEPTEMBER/9-21-2011/house-where-the-bees-was.gif" title="The neighbouring house where the bees hive was" />The neighbouring house where the bees hive was</div></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Meanwhile, the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) said, following the occurrence, immediate action was taken to exterminate the killer bees in the area.<br />
The agency said it contacted a private beekeeper, Mr. Carl Persaud, who responded to the scene and did what was necessary, including rescuing two dogs.<br />
He said, based on the number of bees that were exterminated, he believes there are other colonies of them within the area.<br />
The GLDA is advising that the bees are hostile and should be reported immediately to telephone numbers 220-6556/7.<br />
It extended its sympathy to the family of the dead man and those persons who were stung and injured in the process.</span></td></tr>
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Agricultural officials believe African bees have not colonized north of Tulare County and suspect that the July 5 attack, though savage, was isolated. <br />
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"It felt like my head was on fire," Jack McBride said Saturday, a day after learning that a state laboratory confirmed the identity of the aggressive insects that stung him more than 50 times. <br />
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"They zeroed in on my head," McBride said. "I couldn't see anything but bees. I was spitting them out, then gritted my teeth so they wouldn't get in. I was afraid they were going to kill me."<br />
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McBride was stung inside his nose and on his eyelids, face, neck, armpits and torso. <br />
<div id="story_text_remaining">He fell, lost his glasses, tried rolling and finally ran, half-blinded, about one-eighth of a mile to take shelter in a house -- bees chasing him the whole way. <br />
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European honey bees, crucial for pollinating many California crops, "just don't overdo it like that," said Eric Mussen, a University of California at Davis apiculturist, or bee expert.<br />
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Mussen and Gary Caseri, Stanislaus County's agriculture commissioner, said African bees likely swarmed, or escaped a hive to repopulate elsewhere, after being trucked in to pollinate almonds around Modesto.<br />
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It's unlikely that African bees moved that far north on their own without confrontations reported in other counties such as Fresno and Merced, Mussen said. <br />
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African bees are similar to their European cousins in size, venom and honey production, but are much more defensive of territory, sending many more attackers and chasing victims up to a quarter-mile.<br />
Ambulance workers administered antihistamine and an IV before rushing McBride to the hospital, where he was given morphine for pain. <br />
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"I was bitten so many times. It felt like the worst sunburn you've ever had," he said. <br />
He felt better in about 24 hours and eventually retrieved his glasses. <br />
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One of his dogs was stung in the eye and another vomited, so he took both to a veterinarian. They seemed to recover more quickly, McBride said. <br />
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The property owner hired an exterminator who destroyed four nests, using a crane to reach some in trees. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">See the rest of the story <a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/07/23/2475462/man-survives-bee-attack-near-modesto.html#ixzz1T23wvX8D">here</a> <br />
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This event is becoming ever more common... A resident, out doing his or her thing, becomes a victim of a Killer Bee Attack. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Sadly, attacks by Africanized Honey Bees, (AHB or Killer Bees), will only become more commonplace, as these invasive insects continue to exploit available areas. Here in Florida, our official AHB slogan is " Bee Aware: Look, Listen, Run!, which at first sounds silly, but in fact is quite helpful. Take a look at our <a href="http://www.freshfromflorida.com/pi/plantinsp/ahb.html">Dept. of Agriculture's, Apiary Section</a> AHB Poster<br />
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Richard Martyniak, M.Sc., Entomologist<br />
The Buzzkillers, LLC<br />
<a href="http://allfloridabeeremoval.com/">ALLFloridaBeeRemoval.com</a></div>ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-41180680062766861182011-07-14T11:40:00.002-04:002011-07-14T11:55:51.373-04:00Tuscon AZ: Friends remember man killed in bee attack<div id="WNStoryHeader"><h3 class="">Friends remember man killed in bee attack</h3><i class="wnDate">Posted: Jul 14, 2011 2:11 AM EDT </i> <i class="wnDate">Updated: Jul 14, 2011 2:11 AM EDT </i> <br />
<div id="WNStoryByline"><div class="byline">By Sonu Wasu, reporter </div></div><div class="wnDS37 wnDSContainer-standard wnDS" id="WNDS37"><div class="wnDSItems-standard"></div></div></div><div class="wnRight" id="WNStoryRelatedBox"></div><div class="" id="WNStoryBody">Friends expressed shock and sadness after hearing about the tragic death of 46-year old Oscar Navarro, a man attacked by a big swarm of killer bees last Friday.<br />
Neighbors who shared the property with Navarro described him as a very friendly man, who would always bring candy for their kids, and greet them with a kind word.<br />
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Lewis Urling was not only good friends with Navarro, he was also his landlord. Urling said Navarro was a former pilot, who was on disability. He was diabetic.<br />
Urling said with his health and condition, there was no way Navarro would have been able to out-run or fight off the hundreds of bees, that attacked him.<br />
Neighbors were horrified to hear about the death.<br />
"I just burst out crying. You would expect that. He was the sweetest man you would ever meet. I can't imagine his pain. Nobody should die like that," said Navarro's neighbor Dulce Pena.<br />
Tucson city crews found a bee-hive buried in a Mesquite tree in a wash, just a few hundred yards away from the boys and girls club, at Joaquin Murietta Park, on N. Silverbell Road.<br />
The city called the Northwest Exterminating company to get rid of the hive.<br />
Crews put on bee suits and protective masks, and attacked the hive with rakes, and nozzles filled with a soap solution. They also left behind sticky traps to catch the bees that were still alive.<br />
By Wednesday evening, crews said they had killed off most of the Africanized honey bees, including the Queen of the colony.<br />
Dena Berg, the manager of Northwest Exterminators said Africanized Honey Bees were the most prevalent species in Tucson. They typically came out during the monsoon, when plants started to flower. They were also considered the most aggressive and deadly bees out there.<br />
This was the first bee death in Pima County this year.<br />
Friends say Navarro, who did not have a car, was walking by the park towards Blockbuster video to return some movies, when the bees attacked him.<br />
Witnesses said he was covered with bees from head to toe, and was stung hundreds of times.<br />
Pima County officials said an autopsy showed that Navarro died from "mass envenomation."<br />
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See the rest of the story <a href="http://www.kold.com/story/15079394/friends-remember-man-killed-in-bee-attack">here</a> <br />
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</div><div style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Entomologist's Comment:</span></div><br />
Sadly, attacks by Africanized Honey Bees, (AHB or Killer Bees), will only become more commonplace, as these invasive insects continue to exploit available areas. Here in Florida, our official AHB slogan is " Bee Aware: Look, Listen, Run!, which at first sounds silly, but in fact is quite helpful. Take a look at our <a href="http://www.freshfromflorida.com/pi/plantinsp/ahb.html">Dept. of Agriculture's, Apiary Section</a> AHB Poster<br />
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Richard Martyniak, M.Sc., Entomologist<br />
The Buzzkillers, LLC<br />
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Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - An accident involving a truck loaded with honey bees temporarily forced the closure of a highway in central Wyoming.<br />
Wyoming Highway 220 southwest of Casper was closed in both directions from midmorning Monday until shortly after 2 p.m.<br />
Trooper Marshall Wyatt of the Wyoming Highway Patrol says the accident happened when a westbound pickup truck drifted across the centerline and sideswiped an eastbound semitrailer hauling hundreds of hives of bees.<br />
Wyatt says between 150 to 200 hives broke open and spread along about 400 feet of highway.<br />
Wyatt says a few people got stung. He says the pickup driver was treated and released from a hospital.<br />
Workers wearing protective suits piled the hives on the side of the road and burned them.<br />
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MCALLEN, Texas | Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:16pm EDT<br />
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MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - An elderly South Texas couple died and their son was injured after a swarm of bees attacked them on their remote ranch, authorities said on Wednesday.<br />
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William Steele, 95, and his wife, Myrtle, 92, died and their son, Richard, 67, was injured after bees attacked them as they tried to clean a hunting cabin on their ranch near Hebbronville on Monday, an investigator with the Jim Hogg County Sheriff's Office said.<br />
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"It was a terrible thing," Investigator Reyes Espinoza told Reuters. "You don't prepare for something like that."<br />
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Richard Steele told investigators he and his parents were attacked after they moved a wood stove in the cabin and exposed a hive of bees, Espinoza said.<br />
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The son immediately drove about 15 miles to the nearest road, where he managed to call for help on a cell phone.<br />
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William Steele tried to escape the bees by running from the cabin, but he fell and succumbed to hundreds of bee stings, Espinoza said.<br />
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Myrtle Steele was airlifted to a Corpus Christi hospital, where she died on Tuesday. Her son was transported to a Laredo hospital and released, Espinoza said.<br />
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Espinoza said the bees swarmed deputies when they arrived at the scene on Monday.<br />
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"By the grace of God, we didn't get stung," he said. "You could literally scoop them off of us."<br />
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Espinoza said they were likely Africanized honey bees -- often called "killer bees" for their aggression -- which are common in south Texas.<br />
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The bees are hybrids from swarms originally introduced to Brazil from Africa, which absconded in the 1950s. They spread north through South and Central America, crossing into south Texas in 1990, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<br />
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The bees swarm more frequently than native bees, and are extremely defensive. The USDA advises untrained individuals against trying to remove swarms. If attacked, individuals should run away quickly and not stop to help others.<br />
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This is such a tragic event, as with just a bit of care and caution, it's likely that these deaths could have been prevented. When I'm called in to offer an assessment of feral bees nesting in a home or home landscape, I always stress the dangers to nearby pets, children, handicapped and elderly folks, as these are the groups at significant risk from defensive bee attacks. Please, don't allow a feral colony to exist near or in your home, call us for expert removal services at 1-800-343-5317.<br />
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Richard Martyniak, M.Sc., EntomologistALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-6232717392289222902011-04-06T20:46:00.000-04:002011-04-06T20:46:34.943-04:00Rabbi attacked by African killer bees<h2>Rabbi attacked by African killer bees in Zimbabwe</h2><div class="byline"> April 4, 2011 </div>JOHANNESBURG (JTA) -- A rabbi handing out matzah and wine for Passover to Jews in Zimbabwe was attacked by a swarm of African killer bees.<br />
Moshe Silberhaft, the spiritual leader and executive director of the African Jewish Congress known as "The Traveling Rabbi," was making a pre-Passover visit to the 190 Jews left in the beleaguered capital of Harare when he was attacked by the bees while walking from the Ashkenazi synagogue to the Sephardi synagogue on the Shabbat of April 2.<br />
The rabbi was being accompanied by the Ashkenazi synagogue's Torah reader, Yosi Kably. <br />
“They suddenly swarmed on us from nowhere, buzzing around our heads and in our ears," Silberhaft said of the bees from the hive located under a wooden pole. "We didn’t even hear them coming.”<br />
After being stung repeatedly the two men ran into traffic, pounding on car windows, but no one would risk opening their windows for fear of letting in the bees. Passers-by attempted to help by spraying the bees with a poison and setting a tire alight to smoke them out.<br />
Silberhaft and Kably called for help and were taken to a private doctor’s clinic, where they received adrenaline, oxygen, antihistamines, cortisone and painkillers. Some of the stingers were pulled out one by one by the doctor and assistants.<br />
The rabbi returned to Johannesburg with stingers still on his head, nose and hands, as well as in his ears.<br />
Silberhaft, a regular visitor to Zimbabwe and other sub-Saharan African countries, was visibly upset at missing the service and was saddened that the incident occurred on Shabbat.<br />
“Africa is not for sissies,” he said.<br />
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Read the rest of the article here: <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/04/04/3086700/rabbi-attacked-by-african-killer-bees-in-zimbabwe">Rabbi attacked by African killer bees</a>ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-17300737603449723002011-03-20T10:20:00.002-04:002011-03-20T10:21:31.892-04:00Millions of bees swarm after Mississippi wreck<h1><br />
</h1><div class="byline">By <a href="http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/staff/emily-lane/">Emily Lane</a> | The Natchez Democrat</div><div class="storypubdate">Published Saturday, March 19, 2011</div><br />
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NATCHEZ — You would be ticked, too, if you and 44 million of your buddies were stuffed in an 18-wheeler when it flopped over like a dead daisy in the middle of pollination season.<br />
Truck driver Mike Johnson had almost reached his South Adams County destination to put 448 honeybees to bed Thursday night, when the truck’s back axle fell in a ditch on the passenger side and pulled the hulking truck with a swarming cargo flat to its side.<br />
The bees were coming from California to a plot of land near Sibley in order to catch Mississippi’s warm weather and early pollination season before being hauled off to South Dakota to get busy making money, Ken Ensminger said.<br />
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<div class="photographer">Photo by Eric Shelton</div><div class="caption">Bees swarm around their boxes after the accident.</div></div><div class="inline inline-left photothumb-inline"><a href="http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/photos/2011/mar/19/19192/" title="Click to enlarge photo"><img align="center" alt="Bees swarm around their boxes after the accident." src="http://media2.natchezdemocrat.com/img/photos/2011/03/18/031911_Bees3_ES_t180.jpg?370a03faaa4bde2115f371a02430eb3e6a451be5" /></a> <br />
<div class="photographer">Photo by Eric Shelton</div><div class="caption">Bees swarm around their boxes after the accident.</div></div>Ensminger is a coordinator stationed in Vidalia for A.H. Meyer & Sons Inc., a family-owned beekeeping company.<br />
The truck fell over at approximately 9 p.m. Thursday when it was on its way up to the field from the highway. It did not get turned upright until 3:30 p.m. Friday, after all of the bee hives were rescued and laid out on the property in their customary white boxes.<br />
Ensminger said the bee hives were covered with a net inside the truck, so they did not escape and were not harmed. It took from 5 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Friday to cut each box containing a hive out of the netting on the back of the truck and stack them in the field, Ensminger said.<br />
Crews with Curtis Wrecker Services, who arrived to pull the 18-wheeler right side up, were decked out in white bee suits and netted hats, which Ensminger lent to them.<br />
“They’re ticked off,” Ensminger said of the bees. “But they’ll (calm down) and then you can control them like anything else.”<br />
Ensminger, whose only protection was a netted mask that attached to his Louisiana State University straw hat, said he had not been stung Thursday night or all of Friday even though he surrendered his suit to the towing employees.<br />
“But I get stung all the time,” he said.<br />
A crew member from Curtis said he was stung three times before he was able to put on his suit.<br />
Ensminger said the men were able to clean up the mess much faster than he anticipated and that it could have been much worse.<br />
He said the property owner, who trades the use of his property for three cases of honey, was very understanding about the mishap in his field, Ensminger said.<br />
By 3 p.m., many of the bees had already settled down from the “trauma” of the car wreck. But the ones who were most recently rattled by the move from the truck made the sky and white boxes where their hives are kept look black from their swarming.<br />
“They’re just confused,” Ensminger said. “By morning they’ll decide which box is theirs, and they’ll home-up.”<br />
Ensminger said the worker bees who swarmed were looking for their queens.<br />
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</h1>LAKELAND - A Lakeland woman is in critical condition after surviving a horrific attack by hundreds of yellow jacket wasps.<br />
Juanita Foshee, 81, wife was watering the lawn Saturday evening when she came across a yellow jacket nest in the ground, according to her husband Clyde Foshee.<br />
Clyde said the attack started in their yard, but didn't stop until they got Juanita to the hospital.<br />
"One of the nurses in the ER was stung by a yellow jacket that was in her hair," Foshee said.<br />
Clyde said his wife's condition is guarded.<br />
"Her condition is critical. The doctors have never seen anything like this before. They're amazed that she's still alive," Foshee said.<br />
Clyde and Juanita Foshee have been married for 55 years. Imagine his shock when he got the call that she had been stung by more than 1,000 yellow jackets.<br />
"Buddy, I couldn't believe my eyes," said Foshee. "There wasn't a place on her body that wasn't covered with yellow jackets."<br />
Yellow jackets are known be aggressive, and will sting repeatedly if provoked. Experts say it would make sense that Juanita may have accidentally disturbed a nest in the ground.<br />
"The yellow jackets actually prefer to be in the ground, they actually excavate the soil," said Jonathan Simkins of Insect IQ.<br />
Juanita is at Lakeland Regional Medical Center.<br />
"I can't imagine what kind of pain she went through. The doctor said she had over a thousand bites," Foshee said.<br />
In addition to her external injuries, Clyde says his wife is suffering kidney damage. Right now, they aren't sure if she's going to make it.<br />
Experts say a yellow jacket nest can house up to 5,000 yellow jackets. To avoid them, watch out for the warning signs.<br />
"The one thing you want to look for is a flight pattern. You're gonna see yellow jackets flying in and out of an area -- that's a problem," Simkins said.<br />
The Foshee family is hoping this mother of three survives her bout with the pesky insects.<br />
"She's 81 years old and she's tough. She's gotta be tough to even survive this," said Foshee.<br />
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Our very own entomologist, Jonathan Simkins is intereviewed, explaining the very dangerous nature of these defensive insects. This year alone, dozens of Florida residents have suffered severe injury or death from stinging insect stings.ALL Florida Bee Removalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13726310600387220227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340644655612734993.post-54227726034714805132010-10-11T21:26:00.000-04:002010-10-11T21:26:10.149-04:00Georgia man demolishing shed killed by Honey BeesPosted: Oct 11, 2010 4:52 PM EDT<br />
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ALBANY, GA (WALB) – A Dougherty County man was stung to death in a bee attack Monday.<br />
The 73 year old man was on a bulldozer on some property on Williamsburg Road, not far from U.S. 19 in Southeastern Dougherty County. The dozer bumped an old wooden porch post where honey bees had built a giant hive and they swarmed him. Tens of thousands of them attacked Curtis Davis.<br />
Coroner Emma Quimbley says Curtis Davis was stung hundreds of times, too many to count. She told me it was so many stings there would have been little chance of anyone surviving this type of attack.<br />
Several handfuls of dead bees doesn't begin to describe how many tens of thousands swarmed this field where 73 year old Curtis Davis lost his life.<br />
"The bees were probably just three to four inches surrounding the bull dozer dead," said Battalion Chief Marty Leverett, Albany Fire Department.<br />
More than an hour after Davis was attacked, bees still swarmed around the cab of the bulldozer.<br />
"He got overcome by bees and he got stung. Actually he was unconscious when we arrived," said Leverett.<br />
Firefighters battled the bees so paramedics could get to him.<br />
"They had to use a CO2 extinguisher to brush the bees away from him and they used their turn out gear which gave them a pretty good bit of protection to go up and actually get him," said Leverett.<br />
Still many got stung, including Beekeeper Dale Richter who found the honey bee hive inside an old porch rail being moved by the bull dozer.<br />
"Probably between 20,000 and 30,000 honey bees there and with the tractor running and the fire fighters out here with all this equipment, it just kept them highly irritated," said Dale Richter, a beekeeper<br />
"It was kind of scary they were all over your clothes," said Leverett.<br />
While it's unusual for bees to swarm this late in the year, it's always better to check the debris before moving.<br />
"People need to be aware when they're out building or destroying anything like this or pushing down equipment they need to really check for honey bees and yellow jackets," said Richter.<br />
Some firefighters and several members of Davis' family were stung. Everyone has been treated for those stings.<br />
Both the coroner and beekeeper met at the site late this afternoon. While honey bees only sting you once, they say hundreds of stings can be fatal.<br />
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