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100 'Killer Bee' Stings Kill Fla. Man
local6 ^ | 12-april-2008

Posted on 04/12/2008 11:46:31 AM PDT by stainlessbanner

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To: stainlessbanner

Dreadful. RIP.


21 posted on 04/12/2008 2:43:33 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~***Just say NO to the "O"***~~~)
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To: Harold Shea

Yeah, mass bee stings feel like someone poured gasoline on you and lit a match. It’s a bad way to go!


22 posted on 04/12/2008 2:49:15 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; MeekOneGOP; stainlessbanner

We have them in Texas. Just last week I had a man come running into my yard from neighboring property where he had been using a riding lawnmower.

He still had some swarming around his head but not as aggressivly as the original African “killer” bees would have. They are interbreeding with the local honey bees.

Africanized honey bees have been seen as far north as Kansas City, Missouri!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee


23 posted on 04/12/2008 3:06:15 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

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Wear netting and smoke


24 posted on 04/12/2008 3:30:07 PM PDT by devolve (------- --------The Wright Stuff? -----Obama is TYPICAL!)
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To: devolve

[Wear netting and smoke]

Snicker, then the netting would catch on fire igniting the net and the hat holding the net, then your hair. Lol.

Yeah, Somewhere I still have a beekeepers hat, netting and ‘smoker box’ from when my kids were little and we had one honeybee hive!


25 posted on 04/12/2008 3:44:31 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: decimon

LOL... Yes you are right. If I swim with the gators the bees won’t bother me :-)

You gotta love that state.


26 posted on 04/12/2008 4:28:32 PM PDT by festus (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: NonValueAdded

Yah you aren’t kidding. I’ve lived down there before and never thought I’d be heading back. But it looks like I will be.


27 posted on 04/12/2008 4:29:34 PM PDT by festus (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: arderkrag

agreed...

Over the decades, several deaths in the Americas have been attributed to Africanized bees. The venom of an Africanized bee is no more potent than that of a normal honey bee, but since the former subspecies tends to sting in greater numbers, the number of deaths from them are greater than any other subspecies. However, allergic reaction to bee venom from any bee can kill a person, and it is difficult to estimate how many more people have died due to the presence of Africanized bees.


28 posted on 04/12/2008 7:50:10 PM PDT by stlnative
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