Posted on 09/30/2015 1:48:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Fire rescue officials say half a dozen workers were spraying a marshy area Wednesday near Southwest 7th Street and 184th Terrace when they encountered the bees.
Officials one of the workers was stung and was hospitalized. His condition is not known.
Rescuers were initially concerned because the workers were separated when they jumped into the water, but officials said they were eventually all accounted for.
Officials said the workers were on a boat spraying pest repellent when they encountered the bees.
I think a great video would be if you could see a person running away from a bee hive in slow motion.
Bees or gators? Quite a choice ...
Watch out for gators.
There was an accident near here a while back. One of the cars hit a dead tree, which had a hive in it. The bees were angry, got out, and stung the woman from head to toe. She jumped into a nearby pool with only her nose sticking out. Ambulance guys took her to the hospital - it was really bad. The other person was not stung nearly as badly.
Ole Miss had better.
When I was a kid, I went to this one redneck kid’s house. I remember he was poking around in a mudbank and suddenly a swarm or bees came buzzing out.
The redneck kid started squirting them with a garden hose. I and all the other kids there ran away howling as we got chased by this angry swarm.
For some reason, they never stung the redneck kid that stirred them up.
Because he was a ginger, they rule.
yikes
The bees moved on the next day. In retrospect, I would have felt bad.
I was on a gov’t site and came across a ground nest. Typical black and white bumblebees but they weren’t the usual “nice” ones that don’t bother you. I would get close and they started swarming.
I told the pest guy about it and he laughed at me “Oh - those won’t bother you, but I’ll go check it out.”
I was still working, about 200 feet away now, when the bee guy came by. I pointed out the flagging I had placed around the hole. He drives over in his little cart and walks over to the hole to check it out.
Moments later he’s running and waving his arms and hat! I just had to think “I told you so”. He made it back to his cart, put on some netting and grabbed two cans of bug spray.
On his way back “Well that was the darndest thing!! I’ve never seen that before!”
My dad “talked” me out of stuff by just saying, “NO!”
I have a shed out in my backyard, and one day while working around it, I noticed the large black bumblebee types landing on the concrete ramp, and walking under the large sliding door.
That usually isn’t a good sign, and sure enough, when I watched one land, it walked under a table with a bunch of stuff piled around it, I saw a large dome on the floor, about 2 feet by two feet, and the bumblebee walked right into it.
It looked kind of like a mouse nest.
Now, those large, mostly black bumblebees looked nasty with a visible stinger on them that looked to me like it stuck out a quarter inch from their abdomen, so I went inside, and had one of those helmets with the netting on it, put on a pair of woolen german army pants that had a plastic liner over a pair of sweatpants, put on a heavy jacket, used duct tape around my pant legs and jacket cuffs over heavy leather gloves, and had the jacket zipped all the way up with the netting tucked inside. It felt impenetrable.
So, I grabbed a large, thick, heavy duty garbage bag, a small rake, and walked up to the thing where I could hear a faint buzzing inside.
I poked it gently with the rake, and heard the buzzing volume increase dramatically. I stepped back and pondered it, wondering why I felt so damned nervous...as covered up as I was.
I screwed up my courage, opened the bag on the ground, held it open with my legs, and took the rake to scoop the whole nest inside.
I put the rake behind it and moved the whole thing about an inch, and it erupted with a really, REALLY loud, ANGRY buzzing...and the entire nest visibly VIBRATED!
LOL, I left it alone and called some guys who advertised themselves as “The Bee Guys”. They showed up in a beat up red pickup, and got out wearing white coveralls and ZZ-Top style beards...they looked to be crittery guys in their mid-sixties!
They went out back and came back about a minute later, no other protective gear, and had the nest in a large black garbage bag...I think we paid them $75 and they left us a jar of honey...:) When we asked what they did with the bees, one laconically said “We just kill em, they ain’t good for honey or nuthin’ anyway...”
LOL!
“..and they left us a jar of honey.” Nice touch.
Funny, my wife and I have pondered whether Bumble and Carpenter bees (the ones that bore 1/2” holes in wood) can sting or not. Never tried to test it, honey bees hurt enough and we love the little critters.
Female carpenter bees, the ones in the bored holes, can bite you pretty badly. The males that are buzzing around on guard can’t. Don’t know about bumblebees.
Go Gators!
lol
Funny!
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