Bees kill 23 yr old in Lagrange Texas

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Last week, a young man was mowing a city park and was attacked and stung over 200 times. He was able to call a coworker by cellphone but the coworker was unable to get close. The fire dept sprayed foamy water to disperse them. He died after being life flighted to Austin.

The bees were in a cottonwood tree 40 feet off the ground. A Texas A&M researcher said nearly all wild bees in this area have some degree of Africanized genes.

Folks, almost every attack I hear of involves mowing. But not always. My buddy has been trying to kill a couple of nests near his place south of Victoria. They keep stinging his family and dogs once or twice a week. He resorted to mounting an electric sprayer to his hay spike on his big tractor. Jamming it into the nest and spraying. Seems that all the bees that flew off are still alive. He doesn't want to pay $200 to have a bee keeper come to collect it.

 

[rox]

I wonder why he didn't spray at night when they were all tucked away for the night. That way you get them all. I wonder if they ever do go back to the hive after it has been sprayed/

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I forgot to mention my buddy used a CAB tractor. I wish I had one. The 23 year old guy would still be here if he had one.

 

[txdon]

Kyle, what is it with the bees around here? Last month one of our friends went to transfer a hive out of a persons house, got stung a few times, and died. The community is still in shock over his death.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Kyle, what is it with the bees around here? Last month one of our friends went to transfer a hive out of a persons house, got stung a few times, and died. The community is still in shock over his death.

Sorry for your loss Don. Friends are neat to have around. But I strongly suspect his death had less to do with the bees and more to do with his own allergic reaction to their sting.

I was once in an emergency room with my son (skateboards). While we were there a Harley rider came in feeling funny after being stung while riding down the highway. I overheard the doc and him discussing his sting. I heard the rider say he'd been stung before but it'd never made him feel like he was feeling now. Then he went into full cardiac arrest. The last I heard he was alive in intensive care. The doc told me that we can become allergic after being non-allergic for years to stuff like bee stings.

 

[ToadHill]

Years ago when I kept bees I got stung about 40 times around my ankles. It made my face swell up and almost closed my eyes. After that when I get stung I never had it happen again, it doesn't even hurt. My doctor told some people develop a resistance to the stings, while some become allergic to them.

 

[tallyho8]

Bee stings make me swell and itch more than the average person. I carry a tube of After Bite in my tractor and when stung apply it immediately to the bite. If applied right away, there is usually no swelling and the pain and itching is greatly reduced. I refill these tubes from a bottle of spirits of ammonia and it seems to be the exact same thing at a cheaper cost. I carry tubes in my golf cart and truck also.

 

[Richard]

Bees & other vespids = no fun

I'm now getting shots for them & have several Epipens at my disposal.

Got stung 1 1/2 years ago & ended up in emergency room for 3 hours with someting like 5 or 7 viles of "stuff" jammed into an IV in my arm.

little $+#&*_(*'ards

 

[MarkV]

A 21 year old nephew of a close friend went out to the garden shed and was stung once in the back of the neck last year. By the time he walked the 100’ back to the house he collapsed and had passed away before the ambulance arrived 10 minutes later. He never had a history of allergies to bee stings. The doctors concluded that the combination of being stung several days earlier and the location of the sting shut down his respiratory system.

I’d never heard of anyone dieing from so few bites unless they had bad allergies. Kind of scary considering I get bit several times a year.

MarkV

 

[heehaw]

"My buddy has been trying to kill a couple of nests near his place south of Victoria. They keep stinging his family and dogs once or twice a week. He resorted to mounting an electric sprayer to his hay spike on his big tractor. Jamming it into the nest and spraying. Seems that all the bees that flew off are still alive."

i know a lot of folks will object to this...but if you put gasoline in a pump up sprayer, the bees don't fly off. always appeared to be instant death for them when i used it.
heehaw