He commented on that, I guess they are around but I think they are just
meaner and not more venomous but I don't know.
They are all over the combs now from below where he pulled off the
soffit piece, maybe they are happier now.
--FT
On 6/13/19 3:43 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
Africanized honeybees made it up your way yet?
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 3:36 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote:
so my bee guy did not come back after he left, he only lives like
10min
up the road. I finally send him a msg here is his reply:
Man I’ve been stung hundreds of times never had something like
this. I
just got out the emergency place. Almost went into anaphylactic
shock on
the way home. Wife rushed me to the emergency room
I’ve fluid and all kinds of stuff they pumped in it
IV
Must have been some kind of XFiles super bee!
-_FT
On 6/13/19 2:57 PM, Dan--- via Mercedes wrote:
> Then you don’t want to read about this guy...
>
> https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wild-bee-keeping
>
> -D
>
>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 1:50 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote:
>>
>> How do people end up in this line of work? I cannot imagine
getting stung
>> with regularity...
>>
>> When I was in Fiji I was stung twice by Asian (?) hornets. My
heart almost
>> stopped beating from the pain. The hornet lived to carry on
its business.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 1:37 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> So after the rains of the last few days stopped the bee guy
came to deal
>>> with these bees I have in an eave on my side porch. He opened
up the
>>> soffit and there are 11 combs up in there between the rafters and
>>> nailers. He said the combs look empty, no honey (but
something else in
>>> there I forget what he called it), but there is one new comb
in the
>>> front. He says the bees might be robbing it of honey and
taking it
>>> somewhere else if the queen has vacated. he had to go home
and get some
>>> more equipment or something. One bee hit him on the ear as he
was not
>>> wearing his protective gear, even though he has been stung
hundreds of
>>> times he says it still affects him, his ear will likely swell up.
>>>
>>> He's supposed to come back and try to find the queen or deal
with it all
>>> somehow. It is all quite interesting.
>>>
>>> --
>>> --FT
>>>
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