“How do you know that they are Africanized bees and not European style bees?”
“Oh, I don’t know.”
WhAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhh…!
I’m surprised the bee guy killed them - I thought they relocated them.
StG
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I’m surprised the bee guy killed them - I thought they relocated them.
StG[/
Something like 90% of the wild swarms out here are Africanized, which beekeepers don’t want. If they find a migrating swarm, they will sometimes relocate them, but once they have a bee-home, they get too defensive to move.
Here’s another photo from this morning.
I emptied two cans of foaming wasp spray into the hive to take care of most of the escapees (escabees?). I think the battle is almost over.
Well, beowulff, you seem to be in good company:
F-22 Raptor grounded by 20,000 bees
On a more serious note*, is the the start of some kind of Bee Uprising or something? First beowulff’s car, now** the most advanced fighter jet in the world: It’s like the bees are progressing at a geometric rate. Has anyone heard from the International Space Station lately? Have we checked all the nuclear missiles?
*No, not really.
**Well, actually, the F-22 thing was back in June.
I think this has been a topic for a fiction story, but if the insects got their act together, we would be doomed.
It’s one thing to shoot a Bear with a gun - it’s a whole 'nother thing to try to kill a zillion tiny flying stinging things!
Yeah, some of those videos uploaded from youtubers can put a lot of horror flicks to shame…but at least there’s relief in knowing that other people have had much worse zits, bug infestations, accidents leading to near fatal injuries, pranks gone awry, etc… but hey, don’t miss out on all the valuable info to get you through the end of the world, NWO, zombie apocolypse, alien invasion, etc… And that’s found in the 5% of the internet that is easy to access… Imagine what the deep web has… I’ve totally gone off topic, haven’t I ? So, what happened? Were there updates that I totally neglected to read before responding here? Okay, on it… ttfn
Compared to my previous experiences with dangerous flying insects, yours is “YUGE!”
Damn straight they’re gonna get theirs, damn squatters, evidently don’t know the laws pertaining to motor vehicles.
My fatigued brain parsed the sentence as waiting for the **Bee Gees **to come.
Now I am wandering around going “Ah ah ah ah killing a hive killing a hive” … and coming up with more lyrics every few minutes. And I have the song buzzing around in my head.
I can just see them in their matching silver Bee Suits!
Welcome to the weird and wonderful universe that is my brain. 
Also, show some sympathy for my family. I am unable to carry a tune, or tap to a beat.
Yeah, me too. And of course, when it inevitably runs out of gas, they’ll head for a Shell station. Except for that one bee who wants to go across the street to the Esso.
<beat>
Because there’s a Esso bee in every crowd.
::ducks and runs like there’s a swarm of bees after him::
How horrible ! You could had called a bee keeper and see if they would had remove the bee for free!
As I mentioned, Beekeepers don’t want Africanized (“Killer”) bees.
adds Slow Moving Vehicle to The List
Not to bring the thread down, but this story involves a tragedy that happened in 2000. The aftermath is similar to the OP’s story.
My dad was a beekeeper, and he and my brother were driving back from a honey harvest when the weather turned sour. A sudden storm and fog came up, making sight difficult. A car in the other lane swerved over and hit them dead-on. My brother survived, but my dad did not.
While taking care of all the paperwork, I asked where dad’s truck had been taken to and visited the junkyard to see if I could salvage anything from the wreck. The caretakers told me they couldn’t get near it because bees were swarming all over it. When I got there, a few were still flying around, but they didn’t bother me. My dad wasn’t one to trust people, so I like to think he somehow got the bees to guard the truck against strangers until I got there.
I am reminded of a story I once heard in a sermon. Our minister was also an amateur beekeeper, and one day, with a van load of hives, he was stopped for some minor traffic violation. The policeman asked him to open up the van, which he did. The moment he saw the hives, all the color drained out of his face. “Close the door,” he whispered.
I don’t remember how this applied to scripture, though.
Wow.
Sorry to hear about your dad, but glad that the Bees had his back!
Really, now, surely they would just fill up with Bee Pee?