That's a buzz kill.

Sounds like a nice, peaceful way to go - poked like a pincushion, all swole up like a Texas grapefruit.

#2 "Gee, that's SWELL!" Typical TV kid from 1957

This is Exactly Why We Need a Missile Defense System On a Different Continent.

Sincerely

Smurphy

I was mowing with a tractor and got into a nest of yellowjackets last week. Took about 25 hits before I could get away from them.

I got attacked by killer bees a couple of times in Panama. It was like in the cartoons...You hear and see the swarm, you get fucked up, you run until you think you're safe, and then you hear the "buzz" heading towards you again.

They tell you not to swat and kill the bees while being attacked...yeah right. There's no way anyone is not going to swat them.

All that being said, I'm glad this guy died. He was too old to live anyway.
I hope he was a liberal. Texas sucks (3 posts in and nobody said it yet, so consider it my gift to you, limpwrists)

Hey Chairborne: Here's another one you forgot-

I wish it was Bush

So it's true they have African "killer bee" hives in Texas? Or are these a cross-breed?

I thought people were exaggerating...

It's real Tosser. Killer Bees and Fire Ants are slowly moving northward into America.

There's a limit to how far north they can travel... or rather, there was, but athropogenic climate change is removing that barrier.

"So it's true they have African "killer bee" hives in Texas?"

Yup.

"Africanized Honey Bees (AHB) -- also called Africanized bees or killer bees -- are descendants of southern African bees imported in 1956 by Brazilian scientists attempting to breed a honey bee better adapted to the South American tropics.

When some of these bees escaped quarantine in 1957, they began breeding with local Brazilian honey bees, quickly multiplying and extended their range throughout South and Central America at a rate greater than 200 miles per year. In the past decade, AHB began invading North America."

Africanized bees are a "cross" breed to begin with. I am not sure if they cross with our typical honey bees.

And yes they have had them for a few years. It isn't just the media sensationalizing.

Do they produce a higher yield of honey? Or are they a total loss?

Are they good for anything compared to ordinary honey bees?

"Are they good for anything compared to ordinary honey bees?"

Killing.

Are they good for anything compared to ordinary honey bees?

They're good as a reminder that we should be careful when mixing species, introducing foreign species, etc.

(In case the kudzu wasn't enough of a reminder of that last part.)

Are they good producers of honey or not?

"Are they good producers of honey or not?"

No one's lived to find out.

I believe they don't produce so much as invade, overthrow, and take. They tend to drive out other bees as they enter an area if I remember my Discovery Channel correctly.

No one's lived to find out.

Beat me to it.

Damn, even insects hate Texans...

They totally dominated the 2009 Bee Olympics.

I was painting up on a roof 3 stories up. As I swiped the brush up under the eave I hit a wasp nest. It was full and as it dropped all the mad wasps came out and started stinging me. I couldn't run due to the steep pitch of the roof. As luck would have it the nest rolled in a straight line right towards my ladder. At first I tried to go over the apex away from the nest but a bunch followed me and they can sting over and over. Finally I had to head to the ladder and got stung all the way down and to my truck.
The nest had landed right in front of the ladder of course.

Are they good producers of honey or not?

Methinks DR might not be the place to find that answer.

When I was about 5 or 6, my poor dog and I stirred up a nest of bees out in the woods and raced back home about a mile with them on our tails.

They nearly kilt the dog, and I had a shirt full of bees sticking out my back. The funny part was they all hit the screen door to the house, and it was full of dead bees,too.

Hmmmm....DR does not show the "o" with the "~" on top of it.

Apparently DR discriminates against Spanish symbols, and is worried about Africanised bees....Hmmm....

Its ok, everybody on it is from ye Olde 20th Century.

They are just surprised the Taxens haven't greeted them as liberators yet. They really would appreciate the flowers.....

"I got attacked by killer bees a couple of times in Panama."
101

Translation-I got mugged by a Ladybug.

A few years ago I was putting gutter guards on. Easy work. All you gotta do is get up on a ladder, right? Well, I have no fear of heights and had already done the second floor, 40 feet up, and was now working on the first floor. So I was about 8 feet up. Came across a wasp nest. Wasps started flying out. Instinct says, back up, them buggers sting.

Broke my ankle in three places and couldn't walk right for a year.

But I didn't get stung! Showed them bastards.

Translation-I got mugged by a Ladybug.

#27 | Posted by northguy3

Now that's funny right there. FF

I wonder what it's like to be a male Ladybug? would the other insects make fun of you?

But I didn't get stung! Showed them bastards.

Want a little insult to go with the injury?

Some mud wasps won't sting.

They are called "mud daubers".

They are identified by their long skinny waists.

So, if they looked like this, you probably broke your ankle trying to evade some non-stinging insects.

I heard the bees were only half-African.

I heard the bees were only half-African.

With Kenyan birth certificate....

Are they good producers of honey or not?

Actually, the purebred African bees are exploited for their honey in Africa. So they are good producers of honey. Due to their hostility, they are less suited for domestication, but they can produce honey.

Honey is not what bees are important for however. Bees are integral to the pollination of a critical portion of the worlds food supply. With the epidemic of Colony Collapse Disorder(CCD), more resistant strains of bees need to be cultivated to protect agricultural practices in North America and Western Europe. Africanized bees are resistant to several conditions that are associated with CCD, so they may offer a partial solution to this crisis. If this is the case, we should consider ourselves fortunate that those Brazilian Scientist had the initiative to undertake the crossbreeding experiments.

"bees are exploited for their honey "

C'mon.