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Help with Hornet's
by kls 45 Replies latest jw friends
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Crazy151drinker
Crap,
I was going to tell you to make a potato gun and shell it.
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Schizm
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/072304/new_beestung.shtml
Web-posted Friday, July 23, 2004
Woman is stung; 60,000 bees killed
By KRIS ABBEY
[email protected]
The Amarillo Globe-News
An estimated 60,000 bees died Thursday and at least one woman suffered multiple bee stings during a commotion surrounding removal of a bee hive.Local beekeeper Charlie Kroeger said the manager of an apartment complex at 3008 S.W. 28th Ave. called Amarillo Animal Control, which contacted Kroeger about removing the hive.
What Kroeger said turned out to be a large hive was hidden from view between enclosed ceiling joists on an overhanging roof above a second-floor balcony.
Kroeger, who has worked with bees for 30 years, said he removed a panel and saw the size of the hive and the aggressiveness of the bees.
About 3 p.m., a resident at the complex drove up during the bee removal operation and started walking to her second-floor apartment. The bees began to buzz around her, Kroeger said.
He advised her to go the other direction at a run, which typically would leave the bees behind. Instead, she made a beeline for her apartment, right next to the hive, he said.
She reached her apartment with numerous stings and called 911, which dispatched paramedics, Kroeger said.
The paramedics initially could not approach the apartment because thousands of agitated bees were in the area and bent on defending their hive, Kroeger said.
Amarillo firefighters came to the scene and blocked off the street. Some firefighters donned protective suits and prepared to use chemicals to wipe out the bees.
Kroeger said he stepped in with a simpler and safer method to kill an estimated three-quarters of the hive: spraying water.
The woman who was stung went to a hospital for observation, Kroeger said.
As to whether the bees might be an "Africanized" strain, Kroeger said there's no way to know unless the city chooses to send a sample to the state beekeeper in College Station for examination.
"I will just say that they were more aggressive than average honeybees. There's no way to tell by looking except by looking under a microscope," he said. "They act like they may have some Africanized genetic material."
Later, the apartments were quiet. One man who lives there spoke behind his door, which he opened a crack.
"Better watch out. You'll get stung by bees," the man advised.
Marcus Bell, a resident of nearby Covington Pointe Apartments, said he didn't know anything about the bees as he let his pug, Tone, out on to the lawn.
"I'm glad I didn't take my dog for a walk today," he said.
Globe-News Staff Writer Joe Chapman contributed to this report.
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outoftheorg
There is nothing to be gained by calling the sheriff.
First of all he will not come. He will send a deputy, like I was.
Now most of us could recognize something we wanted no part of. Like hornets.
Some of us didn't though and would poke around. The rest of us stayed back and watched the circus.
We would call animal control or even better, a state department. It was always fun to watch the state guys stumble around glaring at us as we grinned.
The final step and the one that worked usually, was to call the fire dept. Those guys all think they are hero's. You know. Walk into burning buildings and stuff like that. They also have some equipment none of the rest of us have. Try killing hornets with a pistol some time.
Ya know what really disturbed me about those damned fire men?
The crazy bastards really were hero's.
Outoftheorg
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kls
Firemen, hum never thought of that one, some of them is so cute. Damn where that nest go?
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Schizm
Follow-up story:
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/072504/new_horrible.shtml Web-posted Sunday, July 25, 2004
'They're horrible'
Officials unsure about type of bees that stung woman about 80 times
By KRIS ABBEY
[email protected]
The Amarillo Globe-News
Melissa Gonzales can still feel the bees on her head.Literally.
Dozens of stingers left by angry bees remain imbedded in Gonzales' scalp after bees attacked her Thursday outside her apartment.
"To remove those (stingers), they would have to shave my head," she said, relating what hospital staff told her while she was being treated at Northwest Texas Hospital for an estimated 80 stings.
What Gonzales described as a prolonged and terrifying incident occurred while beekeeper Charlie Kroeger was removing a bee hive from apartments at 3008 S.W. 28th Ave.
Gonzales had stopped by her apartment about 1:30 p.m. Thursday to have lunch with her two children. As she left to return to work, a few bees started buzzing around.
"The next thing I know it's not a few bees, it's a swarm," she said.
She was swinging her hefty handbag and "doing this funky bee dance" in the parking lot when Kroeger yelled at her to run to her car, she said.
Gonzales dashed back to her apartment and sought aid from her 12-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son. They called 911, but paramedics couldn't reach her until one put a blanket over his head to fend off the annoyed insects.
The Amarillo Fire Department gave Gonzales and her children plastic protective suits, which they wore to get to the ambulance.
"We looked like something right off the 'The X-Files,"' Gonzales said.
Kroeger described the bees as more aggressive than regular bees but said that without testing it is impossible to tell whether the bees are the aggressive hybrids referred to as "Africanized" honey bees.
Carl Patrick, an entomologist at the Texas A&M Research and Extension Center in Amarillo, said he is sending a sample of the bees for testing at the Texas Honey Bee Identification Lab at College Station.
Gonzales, who had about a dozen dead bees in a pile on her coffee table, already has made up her mind.
"They're horrible, ugly-looking little things," she said. "They're not cute like little bumblebees."
Big Problem: Melissa Gonzales examines one of the pesky bees that plagued her Thursday.
