Kyle_in_Tex
Super Star Member
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.
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.