Billy Shafer

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Be careful out there. Leon county just had the first death. From Bee stings. Man out clearing brush. Found in a pond covered in stings.
 
Where is this county located?

Where they Africanized bees?
There was a program on TV aboot how viscous they can be.
 
Leon county is 120 miles north of Houston. I haven't heard what kind they were. As for as I know they were still trying to find out. Nothing reported around here but the normal Bees and Wasp.I guess it could have been a swarm just passing through.
 
a honey bee swarm is usually calm, they are looking for a home and are full of honey (hard to be mad when you are full of something good to eat). Don't know about the africanized bees though.

frank
 
Talked to a local guy that knows the man killed. Said they found the dozer he was using to clear brush. Tried to move it but was attacked by Hornets.The man that died had over 75 stings on him.
 
The African bees are all intermixed with the native bees. The bee keepers like that as the bees are more aggresive at gathering honey - as well as stinging people!

When the Africanized bees first arrived in AZ, ADOT's operators demanded mower tractors with cabs as they often mowed over colonies of bees in the highway right of ways.

In the cities they are often found in meter boxes and irrigation boxes.
 
I live in northeast Texas, and last summer the man baling hay in my pasture about 300 feet behind my house ran through a nest of some kind of black wasp. He said they attacked the cab of his tractor,and he was glad he had the protection. I carried a tankful of soapy water in my pickup to douse them with, but I couldn't find them. I haven't discovered yet what kind of wasp they were.
Butch
 

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