Africanized bees are no joke.

[Trashman]

This time of year we get several bee calls a week. They get into the water meter boxes.

I have done many over the years, in a suit with no issues. Spray, remove the combs and call it a day.

Today, I found what I believe to be an Africanized colony.

Usually the hives don't get pissed off until you start to remove the meter box lid. Then a bunch attack as predicted. No biggie.

I didn't get to within 4' of the meter box today and got swarmed. They were all over the suit. Bad enough I likely couldn't close my hands without killing 10 at a time.

I sprayed the closed lid openings with some spray, then they started hitting me through the suit (through my flex-fit hat I was wearing under it, so I called it and left.

They followed me down the easement a few houses, out to the street, down the street and into a cul-de-sac.

It was wild. Generally they only follow me approx 50'.

 

[DRTDEVL]

bees?

 

[Trashman]

bees?

Ya, you don't have them in the Ole cold north. The south west though they are here.

 

[Archer]

That's some scary shit right there. I run across bees all the time in my work and I don't use suits so I'd be

 

[grumpy356]

I got stung in the head last week by a honey bee and it made my right eye droopy for 2 days. I felt like Forest Whitaker.

I don't mind bees, but I wish they would stay the fuck away from me and my house.

 

[Rttoys]

We had them at my boss’s ranch a while back. Can confirm they are assholes x1000000

 

[Trashman]

I hate bee removal. Not the work involved, but I like bees. I wish we could relocate them instead.

 

[Yota Up]

I hate bee removal. Not the work involved, but I like bees. I wish we could relocate them instead.

Call a beekeeper, many times they'll come get them.

Do you work for the water company and this just comes with the job sans hazard pay or what?

 

[Trashman]

That's some scary shit right there. I run across bees all the time in my work and I don't use suits so I'd be

I estimated likely 25 stingers in each glove, couldn't count how many in the suit, not even touching the hive.

 

[Trashman]

Call a beekeeper, many times they'll come get them.

Do you work for the water company and this just comes with the job sans hazard pay or what?

I work in thar department currently. I wear a lot of hats here.

 

[M92PV4U]

Today, I found what I believe to be an Africanized colony.

The only way to tell is look at the bees dick

 

[Trashman]

The only way to tell is look at the bees dick

 

[Roktoy829]

You're doing it all wrong!

It's a matter of time before this girl gets in trouble.

 

[grumpy356]

Call a beekeeper, many times they'll come get them.

Do you work for the water company and this just comes with the job sans hazard pay or what?

Around here, a beekeeper will charge you $100 just to come look at the hive.

And expensive as shit to have the them removed.
They quoted me $600 for one hive on the side of my house.

It sure wasn’t, “I’ll do it for free if I can keep the bees. “

Now… Granted, these are old numbers. This was almost a full week ago.

 

[gt1guy]

I got stung in the head last week by a honey bee and it made my right eye droopy for 2 days. I felt like Forest Whitaker.

That was a stroke

 

[Roktoy829]

Around here, a beekeeper will charge you $100 just to come look at the hive.

And expensive as shit to have the them removed.
They quoted me $600 for one hive on the side of my house.

It sure wasn’t, “I’ll do it for free if I can keep the bees. “

Now… Granted, these are old numbers. This was almost a full week ago.

If you don't get every bit of the hive out and clean it real well. Then a another swarm will find the old hive and move in.

 

[Rustymofo]

 

[Trashman]

You're doing it all wrong!

It's a matter of time before this girl gets in trouble.

I have no words 😆

Although I would love to see how they react with smoke.

The last hive today was very docile, but also small.

 

[Drummer79]

You're doing it all wrong!

It's a matter of time before this girl gets in trouble.

I know I'd be trying to poke her

 

[Landslide]

I estimated likely 25 stingers in each glove, couldn't count how many in the suit, not even touching the hive.

Do Africanized bees die off after they make their sting like honey bees?

 

[Trashman]

Do Africanized bees die off after they make their sting like honey bees?

I believe so. I had the stinger and poison sacs in the suit/gloves.

 

[grumpy356]

If you don't get every bit of the hive out and clean it real well. Then a another swarm will find the old hive and move in.

No... ... well .. maybe, but not always.

I have a hive well away from the current problem. That hive I was able to kill with the good SevinDust (the 5% that isn't available anymore). It was in a location where there is no getting to it for removal without a manlift and some serious carpentry, so whatever hive behind the wall stayed. Sealed it up and no more bees, and it's been 7 years at least.

 

[Rttoys]

Do Africanized bees die off after they make their sting like honey bees?

No. Not normally. His suit might be made to do that though. That’s what sets those bees apart from others, is the ability to sting multiple times. Plus, if you injure or kill one, it sets off a pheromone that the other bees pick up and attack anything that’s living in the area.

 

[eraser5]

SNL did a show with Africanized Bees from Mexico.

 

[total newb]

bees?

Ironicaly, no

Well, i mean, one is but thats not the point.

 

[grumpy356]

Ironicaly, no

Well, i mean, one is but thats not the point.

More like this....

 

[ExWrench]

Africanized Bees from Mexico

Wouldn't those technically be Mexicanized bees?

 

[Kyle]

I got stung by maybe 14 of them a while back, it was brutal. Super aggressive. I had to run out of their zone to make them stop. I got a certain distance away and they just stopped.

They grab on and then sting.

 

[Trashman]

No. Not normally. His suit might be made to do that though. That’s what sets those bees apart from others, is the ability to sting multiple times. Plus, if you injure or kill one, it sets off a pheromone that the other bees pick up and attack anything that’s living in the area.

I watched the ones on my leather gloves sting, then do little circles until their stingers came out.

 

[ExWrench]

Do Africanized bees die off after they make their sting like honey bees?

Yes, their stinger & venom sack are very similar if not identical to normal honey bees.

That’s what sets those bees apart from others, is the ability to sting multiple times.

No, that's what sets hornets / wasps apart from bees. For the killabeez, it's their easily-triggered and over-responding nature that makes them distinctly more dangerous - sheer volume of stings with far less "fuck around" needed to "find out".

Plus, if you injure or kill one, it sets off a pheromone that the other bees pick up and attack anything that’s living in the area.

That part's mostly right. Also, the first one that gets pissed off can set off all his homies nearby.